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) tions. -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 Identifiers
Publisher
University of Texas Press
ISBN-10
1477309357
ISBN-13
9781477309353
eBay Product ID (ePID)
220976485
Product Key Features
Author
John Graves
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Environment & Planning
Genre
Environment & Planning
Dimensions
Weight
355g
Height
5499mm
Width
3564mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Austin, Tx
Spine
458mm
Content Note
Black & White Illustrations
Author Biography
A meticulous observer of the natural world and an equally precise crafter of the written word, John Graves is renowned for his Brazos Trilogy-Goodbye to a River, Hard Scrabble, and From a Limestone Ledge. He is widely acknowledged as Texas's most beloved writer.
Date of Publication
09/02/2016
Country of Publication
United States
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