| Description |
1 online resource (x, 245 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Before; The Hundred Days: Running Home from School; Album; Happenstance; Album: Father and Sons; Album: First Communion; Happenstance; Album: Dusty and Lindy; Album: Reunion; Literary Remains: Note; Album: Wedding; Literary Remains: Telegram; Happenstance; One; The Hundred Days: Dancing on the Icebox; Album: Father and Son; Happenstance; Literary Remains: ""Him"" Book; Literary Remains: Essay; Album: 1944; Literary Remains: Poems; Literary Remains: Poem Page; The Hundred Days: Closet; Album: Easter; Two; The Hundred Days: Radio; Album: Family; Happenstance; Album: Easter. |
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Album: GramAlbum: Betsy; Album: Family; Happenstance; The Hundred Days: Sunday; The Hundred Days: Lazy Eye; Album: Reunion; Album: School; The Hundred Days: Playing; The Hundred Days: Reading; Happenstance; The Hundred Days: Writing; The Hundred Days: Grammar; The Hundred Days: Cooperstown; Happenstance; Three; The Hundred Days: A Phase; Album: Salesman; The Hundred Days: Proctology; Happenstance; The Hundred Days: Safety; Album: First Communion; The Hundred Days: Family Decision; Album: Arlington; The Hundred Days: Blending; The Hundred Days: Eating in Restaurants. |
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The Hundred Days: That NightThe Hundred Days: Silver Dollar; The Hundred Days: Separating; The Hundred Days: Travel; Happenstance; Four; The Hundred Days: Movies; Album: Family; Happenstance; Album: Father and Sons; The Hundred Days: Sex Education; The Hundred Days: Salesman; The Hundred Days: Archaeology; The Hundred Days: Pinboy; Happenstance; The Hundred Days: Soap Opera; The Hundred Days: Book Report; The Hundred Days: Sanctuary; Happenstance; Five; The Hundred Days: Career Day; Album: Graduate; Happenstance; Album: Family; Literary Remains: Travel; The Hundred Days: Car Washer. |
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HappenstanceThe Hundred Days: Laborer; The Hundred Days: Delivery; The Hundred Days: Salesman; Happenstance; The Hundred Days: Money; The Hundred Days: Moon Landing; Beyond; The Hundred Days: Death; The Hundred Days: Aftermath; Album: Father; Happenstance; The Hundred Days: Driving; Literary Remains: Testimony; Literary Remains: Travel; Happenstance; Album: Family; The Hundred Days: Telling; Album; The Hundred Days: Happenstance; Notes. |
| Summary |
Reflecting on how a student's parents met because of a fly ball to center field in a summer softball game, author Robert Root wondered how the lives of that student's parents and of the student himself would have changed had the batter bunted or struck out. Haunted by this pure example of happenstance, he began to ponder his own existence, dependent in part on geology (the Niagara Escarpment) and history (the Erie Canal). He wondered how happenstance had influenced the course of his parents' lives, in particular their marriages (they married and divorced each other twice), and conseq. |
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Root, Robert L. -- Childhood and youth.
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Root, Robert L. -- Family.
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Root, Robert L. (OCoLC)fst00057314
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Lockport (N.Y.) -- Biography.
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Geology -- Niagara Escarpment.
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Chance.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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Chance. (OCoLC)fst00852032
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Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
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Geology. (OCoLC)fst00940627
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New York (State) -- Lockport.
(OCoLC)fst01213352
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North America -- Niagara Escarpment.
(OCoLC)fst01248206
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Root, Robert L. Happenstance. 9781609381912 1609381912 (DLC) 2013007536 |
| Standard No. |
40022924555 |
| ISBN |
160938220X (electronic bk.) |
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9781609382209 (electronic bk.) |
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