First Job

The classic coming-of-age memoir from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Oregon Trail, about a special time in every young adult’s life—the first “real” job out of college.Ask Rinker Buck about his first job, and you’ll get the enchanting and engaging account that not only captures the experience of being a “twenty-two-year-old with the maxed-out brain,” but also evokes a special time and place: the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts in the early 1970s. Everyone has a first job, and with rare storytelling power and emotions laid bare, Rinker Buck brings back just how it felt.. His memoir First Job is, on its most basic level, the story of Buck’s years as a cub reporter at The Berkshire Eagle, a great country newspaper in its glory years.

Now comes Rinker Buck's absorbing First Job to fill that gap. Thompson writing a book about becoming a newspaper reporter in the 1970s and you have Rinker Buck's First Job. Best of all, with pitch-perfect prose and comic timing, Rinker Buck reminds us of that brief moment in all of our lives when almost everything seemed interesting, and almost anything seemed possible." —Laura Zigman, author of Animal Husbandry and Her"Of all the notable memoirs published in the past few years, remarkably few have had anythin

He lives in northwest Connecticut. Rinker Buck began his career in journalism at the Berkshire Eagle and was a longtime staff writer for the Hartford Courant. He has written for Vanity Fair, New York, Life, and many other publications, and his work has won PEN New England Award, the Eugene S. He is the author of The Oregon Trail as well as the acclaimed memoirs Flight of Passage and First Job. Pulli