From a Limestone Ledge : : Some Essays and Other Ruminations about Country Life in Texas / / John Graves.
“Another fine, reflective, anecdotal look at rural Texas.” —New Yorker “Graves writes eloquently about a countryman’s concerns. There's not a false note in the book.” —Boston Globe “Like the unmortared stone fences of Graves’s native hill country, From a Limestone Ledge is constructed of bits a...
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Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
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505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Foreword -- |t Preface -- |t Coping -- |t Notes of an Uncertain Bluecollar Man -- |t More Than Most People Probably Want to Know About Fences -- |t Building Fever -- |t Meat -- |t Vin du Pays -- |t Trash as Treasure -- |t Kindred Spirits -- |t Creatures -- |t Nineteen Cows -- |t A Few Words in Favor of Goats -- |t Of Bees and Men -- |t Blue and Some Other Dogs -- |t Some Chickens I Have Known -- |t Ponderings, People, and Other Oddments -- |t Noticing -- |t Weather Between East and West -- |t Coronado's Stepchildren -- |t Tobacco Without Smoke I: Dippers -- |t Tobacco Without Smoke II: Chewers -- |t One's Own Sole Ground -- |t A Loser -- |t A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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520 | |a “Another fine, reflective, anecdotal look at rural Texas.” —New Yorker “Graves writes eloquently about a countryman’s concerns. There's not a false note in the book.” —Boston Globe “Like the unmortared stone fences of Graves’s native hill country, From a Limestone Ledge is constructed of bits and pieces never designed to fit together, yet made to achieve a unity that is more enduring than the sum of its individual parts by the hands of a master craftsman.” —Southwestern Historical Quarterly “The beauty of his work endures, and there is a greater pride in Texans’ hearts for their home, I think, than there would be if he hadn’t written the books he did.” —Rick Bass, Garden & Gun “In describing the particulars of his surroundings, Graves often was describing the world in microcosm and the place and plight of humankind in it.” —Bryan Woolley, Dallas Morning News | ||
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