New from Heyday:
Turned Round in my Boots, a memoir
by Bruce Patterson.

Advance Praise for Turned Round in My Boots

“And so Turned Round in My Boots is a work of art. I hope that phrase doesn’t frighten any potential readers because it’s also a real yarn with enough sex and violence and beauty and truth to hold a reader’s interest. Page after page, Patterson’s book is down and dirty, as well as downright muddy, funky, smelly and besotted with the blood and guts of humanity itself. Patterson’s goodhearted father is here, along with Patterson’s fellow soldiers, fellow prisoners, workmates and the book’s two endearing women characters: Samantha, the first woman he loves; and Trisha who steals his heart much as he steals hers.” Read more.
... Jonah Raskin, author of, most recently, Field Days: a Year of Farming, Eating and Drinking Wine in California

“Turned Round in My Boots is a working-class coming-of-age saga that rivals the best we’ve seen in this country. It will alternately have you laughing your socks off and wrenching your gut with its horrible tales of the American family gone wrong. Perhaps most of all, this Vietnam vet will make you wonder why men ever go off to war—the answer being they haven’t yet read a book like this.”
... Gerald Nicosia, author of Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac

 

Praise for Walking Tractor

“I am writing to you about your self-published book, Walking Tractor. We passed it around to various departments around here, and everyone loved it: it's tough, thoughtful, imaginative, and eloquent ... We have a new series of memoirs that we think it will fit nicely under, mainly about the under explored parts of California history and life ...”
... Gayle Wattawa, Acquisitions Editor, Heyday.

“Patterson is a writer with raw power and authenticity that can take a reader's breath away.”
... Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

“A truly gifted storyteller. . .(Patterson’s) prose flows like a gentle river, and the people in his stories are as comfortable as old friends. A pleasant feel-good book full of charm.”
... David Pitt, Booklist

“What a treat it is to discover a writer with a voice as truthful and distinct as Bruce Patterson. His engaging and illuminating tales of rural California remind me of the stories of Breese D’J Pancake. A memorable debut.”
... Tom Barbash, winner of the California Book Award for his novel The Last Good Chance and author of the New York Times bestselling On top of the World

“It’s rare to read in serious literature accounts of people doing this kind of labor that don’t patronize or demean them. Steinbeck did it, of course—wrote of ordinary workingmen as if they were to be honored and respected as much as knights and princes. And Bukowski wrote of workingmen as if they are the essential cogs that keep the world turning. Patterson does both.” Read more ...
... Gerald Nicosia, from the introduction to Walking Tractor

 

Order Information

Walking Tractor is available through bookstores, major book distributors including Ingram, Baker and Taylor, and other distribution centers, or by contacting Heyday directly at (510) 549-3564, ext. 304, via fax at (510) 549-1889, by email at orders@heydaybooks.com, or by visiting our website at www.heydaybooks.com.

For interviews and review copy requests

Please email your request with detailed information about your publication or organization to wendy@heydaybooks.com, or call (510) 549-3564, ext. 309.

To sponsor a reading or event with Bruce Patterson

Please email your request with detailed information about your publication or organization to events@heydaybooks.com, or call (510) 549-3564, ext. 316.

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