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Title: The Rural Life

Other Available Formats:
Hardcover, 2002
Hardcover, 2003

Synopsis
Essayist and farmer Verlyn Klinkenborg writes tenderly but with lucidity about country living at the end of the 20th century and the start of the 21st. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.

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Language:        English

Size
Weight:        0.5 Pounds
Height:         8 Inches
Width:          5.5 Inches
Thickness:    0.5 Inches



Publisher Notes
The author of Making Hay and The Last First Time celebrates the rural life, its pleasures and hardships, and the beauty of the American landscape in a series of reflections corresponding to the months of the year.



Industry Reviews
"Klinkenborg really is a Thoreau for today....Nonfiction storytelling at its highest: unflaggingly lovely, with scope, profundity, and power achieved through a mastering of the delicate."
(09/15/2002)
"THE RURAL LIFE remains supremely grounded throughout, and free of the transcendental vaporizing that thins so much American nature writing. Klinkenborg also avoids sermonizing....This is a brilliant book....THE RURAL LIFE is a work of almost uninterrupted felicity. So much so that in a world more tolerant of 200-page reviews, I'd be tempted simply to copy out the whole book right here."
(12/01/2002)


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Book Details Summary: The title of this book is The Rural Life and it was written by Verlyn Klinkenborg. This edition of The Rural Life is in a Paperback format. This books publish date is January 2004 and it has a suggested retail price of $13.99. There are pages in the book and it was published by Back Bay Books. The 10 digit ISBN is 0316735515 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9780316735513. For the most current lowest price, Click Here.