The Hard Way on Purpose: Essays and Dispatches from the Rust Belt

by David Giffels

Book Overview

Award-winning author and journalist David Giffels explores the meaning of identity and place, hamburgers, hard work, and basketball in this collection of wry, irreverent essays reflecting on the many aspects of Midwestern culture and life from an insider's perspective.In The Hard Way on Purpose, David Giffels takes us on an insider's journey through the wreckage and resurgence of America's Rust Belt. A native who never knew the good times, yet never...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1451692749
• ISBN13: 9781451692747
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.3"