A Day's Work: The Journals of William Gifford Deshner

By William Gifford Deshner

The journals consist of one line per day written across both open pages of legal-sized hardbound ledgers intended for bookkeeping, from January 1903 through September 1942. At first, it was just a record of work done and pay received, but he gradually began adding information about weather and events outside the realm of his employment. Though he may, in part, have begun noting other things so that a blank day couldn't be misconstrued as an omission, it's obvious that the journal steadily evolved into something far more than mere record keeping. Perhaps knowing that this document would likely outlive him, he felt a need to anchor the chronicle of his labor in the context of his life. Perhaps William Deshner intuitively recognized that something more was needed to transform factuality into truth.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1490365508
• ISBN13: 9781490365503
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 1.0" x 8.5"