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Title: The Rural Life

Other Available Formats:
Hardcover, 2003
Paperback, 2004

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.

Details
Language:        English

Size
Length:        213 Pages
Weight:        0.8 Pounds
Height:         8.5 Inches
Width:          6 Inches
Thickness:    0.8 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 Hardcover format. This books publish date is December 2002 and it has a suggested retail price of $20. There are 213 pages in the book and it was published by Little Brown & Co. The 10 digit ISBN is 0316741671 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9780316741675. For the most current lowest price, Click Here.