The Cliff Walk: A Memoir of a Job Lost and a Life Found

by Don J. Snyder

Overview

Snyder's account of temporarily losing his way in life presents a heartrending and inspiring memoir that "confronts the not-so-secret fear that haunts every American who works for a living" ("Atlanta Journal-Constitution"). Author pubilcity. .

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780316803489
Publisher:	Little, Brown and Company
Publication date:	07/20/1998
Edition description:	1ST BACK B
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

Editorial Reviews

Ultimately a story about family, identity, and purpose. The questions that Snyder poses go to the core of American middle-class life….
—The Washington Times

Patrick Boyle

A scary, beautiful, moving memoir…the house building section contains some of the best writing about work in American literature.
—Austin American-Statesman

Tom Grimes

A cautionary fable…strengthened by novelistic pacing and detail…fortunately on his journey to another life, Mr. Snyder took good notes. —The New York Times Book Review

Anne Matthews