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The Starting Gate
- A Cocktail of Working, Drinking, Family and Zen
- De: Paul Mullin
- Narrado por: Paul Mullin
- Duración: 6 h y 52 m
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In 13 chapters Paul Mullin mixes up a potent cocktail of working, drinking, family and Zen. It all starts - where else? - at the Starting Gate: a shit-kicker country bar in Northern Maryland where the author first started working at the age of 13, and where his boss once shot a man dead for trying to rob the local drug store. Other jobs follow, like when he works as the only white kid on an all-black labor crew at the National Archives, or the years he spends as a high-rise window cleaner in Manhattan.
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Evocative. Charming. Thoughtful.
- De RKC en 06-20-18
- The Starting Gate
- A Cocktail of Working, Drinking, Family and Zen
- De: Paul Mullin
- Narrado por: Paul Mullin
Evocative. Charming. Thoughtful.
Revisado: 06-20-18
In this meditation on small town life, big city jobs, masculinity and growing up in the 1980's, Mullin references the Mother Teresa quote: "Do small things with great love" several times. It is apt for this book as well.
In vividly drawing his coming of age in the 1980's and 90's, Mullin is presenting us with many small observances that are all delivered with great love indeed. Along the way we learn the fascinating minutia of high rise window cleaning, being an efficient stock boy, working at the national archives, zen practice and meditation, and how to get the most out of a bar's happy hour.
Mullin, a former actor, does a terrific job of imbuing the stories that make up this volume with just the right amount of sensitivity and swagger.
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