From a Limestone Ledge : : Some Essays and Other Ruminations about Country Life in Texas / / John Graves.

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

“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

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Coping -- Notes of an Uncertain Bluecollar Man -- More Than Most People Probably Want to Know About Fences -- Building Fever -- Meat -- Vin du Pays -- Trash as Treasure -- Kindred Spirits -- Creatures -- Nineteen Cows -- A Few Words in Favor of Goats -- Of Bees and Men -- Blue and Some Other Dogs -- Some Chickens I Have Known -- Ponderings, People, and Other Oddments -- Noticing -- Weather Between East and West -- Coronado's Stepchildren -- Tobacco Without Smoke I: Dippers -- Tobacco Without Smoke II: Chewers -- One's Own Sole Ground -- A Loser -- A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR