Hard Scrabble: Observations on a Patch of Land (Observations On A Patch Of Land Ser.)

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Synopsis
The two-time National Book Award finalist and author of Goodbye to a River ruminates over what an &“unmagnificent&” Texas homestead has meant to him. &“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, The 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.&” —The 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, The 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
Copyright:
1974

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
287 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781477309605
Related ISBNs:
9781477309353
Publisher:
University of Texas Press
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
John Graves. Introduction copyright
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction, Outdoors and Nature
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Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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