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HARD SCRABBLE IBD

JOHN GRAVES
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
02 / 2016
9781477309353
Inglés

Sinopsis

'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

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17,28€