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Hard Scrabble
- Observations on a Patch of Land
Engelsk Paperback
Hard Scrabble
- Observations on a Patch of Land
Engelsk Paperback

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“A kind of homemade book-imperfect like a handmade thing, a prize. It’s a galloping, spontaneous book, on occasion within whooping distance of that greatest and sweetest of country books, Ivan Turgenev’s A Sportsman’s Notebook.” -Edward Hoagland, New York Times Book Review“His subjects are trees and brush, hired help, fences, soil, armadillos and other wildlife, flood and drought, local history, sheep and goats . . . and they come to us reshaped and reenlivened by his agreeably individual (and sometimes cranky) notions.” -New Yorker“If Goodbye to a River was in some sense Graves’s Odyssey, this book is his [version of Hesiod’s] Works and Days. It is partly a book about work, partly a book about nature, but mostly a book about belonging. In the end John Graves has learned to belong to his patch of land so thoroughly that at moments he can sense in himself a unity with medieval peasants and Sumerian farmers, working with their fields by the Tigris.” -Larry McMurtry, Washington Post Book World“Hard Scrabble is hard pastoral of the kind we have learned to recognize in Wordsworth, Frost, Hemingway, and Faulkner. It celebrates life in accommodation with a piece of the ‘given’ creation, a recalcitrant four hundred or so acres of Texas cedar brake, old field, and creek bottom, which will require of any genuine resident all the character he can muster.” -Southwest Review
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
288
ISBN-13:
9781477309353
Indbinding:
Paperback
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ISBN-10:
1477309357
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Udg. Dato:
9 feb 2016
Længde:
33mm
Bredde:
140mm
Højde:
216mm
Forlag:
University of Texas Press
Oplagsdato:
9 feb 2016
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