"The Truth"

By: Sam Pickering

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Paperback | 17 October 2023

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232 Pages

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This summer Sam Pickering and his wife Vicki attended a pro-fessional wrestling match in a small arena in Nova Scotia. They sat in folding chairs on the front row. They ate "Montreal Sausages" drowning in ketchup and awash with onions. They cheered heroes and laughed at villains. In the middle of one match, a naughty wrestler leaned over the ropes and staring at Sam, said, "If you keep laughing that hard, old-timer, you'll have a heart attack." "What?" Sam said to Vicki. "Old-timer? Not me. That poor man had better see an eye doctor before he gets hurt."

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I've been reading Sam Pickering's essays for nearly fifty years, and they have always been for me a touchstone, a place to go home. Now, in his 34^th book, he seems even more comfortable in the genre-the personal essay-that he has so beautifully embraced and made utterly his own. These essays are uplifting, poetical, sometimes melancholy, always hugely entertaining. Pickering is an American original, and he's writing here at the top of his form.

-Jay Parini, author of Borges and Me

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