Author Description

Product Description Jack Barry has written this glorious, moving, unputdownable book describing his life and the lives of everyone around him, which includes birds, animals, fish, turtles, crazy people, children, Irish people, a beaver pond, all-year weather, a hippy madonna to fall in love with, a tree house, haikus, a wild drummer, children, and more and more and more - about a year he spent in his treehouse on the pond, what preceded it, and how it felt - good, bad, scary, disgusting, wild, exhilarating, profound. It is to be enjoyed, marveled at, celebrated! About the Author Jack is the latest in an ancient line of housepainter hermits. He lives just out of sight in the hills of western Massachusetts.