Hard Scrabble : : Observations on a Patch of Land / / John Graves.

• VerfasserIn: Graves, John,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

“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 an...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Dedication
• Contents
• 1. By Way if Introduction
• 2. A Comment
• 3. Used to Be
• 4. The Forging of a Squirren
• 5. Of the Lay of Things, and a Creek
• 6. Ghosts
• 7. A Rooted Population
• 8. An Irrelevance
• 9. Hoof and Paw, Tooth and Claw, Little Creatures Everywhere
• 10. His Chapter
• 11. Helpers
• 12. 2 x 4
• 13. Another Irrelevance
• 14. The War with Mother N.
• 15. Interlude: Our own Pippa passes at the age of seven or so—a sop for those who would have preferred a happy homestead sort of book...
• 16. The War Resumed
• 17. What Happened to Mother N.'s Own Boy?
• 18. Reality as Viewed Darkly Through Old Snuff-Bottle Shards
• Afterword by the Author (2002)
• A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR