{"id":18287,"date":"2016-07-26T07:00:14","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=18287"},"modified":"2016-09-06T08:50:56","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T13:50:56","slug":"new-stuff-tuesday-july-26-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/18287","title":{"rendered":"New Stuff Tuesday – July 26, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Visiting<\/p>\n

Visiting Tom: A Man, A Highway, and the Road to Roughneck Grace<\/strong>
\nby Michael Perry
\nCT275 .H388 P47 2016<\/a>
\nNew Arrivals Island<\/strong>, 2nd floor<\/p>\n

Michael Perry is one of Wisconsin’s favorite contemporary writers as well as a radio host and songwriter. His folksy books about Wisconsin rural life regularly appear on the New York Times<\/em> Bestseller lists. Perry’s books are populated by hard-bitten farmers and other earthy souls who inhabit the fertile fields, taverns, and homesteads of northern Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

This book features a wiry cannon-wielding octogenarian farmer named Tom. Perry’s work offers social anthropology and quirky humor in equal measures – and this book looks to follow suit.<\/p>\n

In 2008, Michael Perry won the UWW Chancellor’s Regional Literary Award<\/a> for his work. So you’re not likely to go wrong with any of his books – they are quick and enriching reads.<\/p>\n

Here are some of the author’s earlier books (and we have more on the way):<\/p>\n