The Rural Life
by Verlyn Klinkenborg
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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.
Editions of The Rural Life
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ISBN |
Binding/Format Paperback |
Publisher Back Bay Books |
Date 2004 |
Price $3.99 |
 New |
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ISBN |
Binding/Format Hardcover |
Publisher Thorndike Pr |
Date 2003 |
Price $7.22 |
Used - Good |
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ISBN |
Binding/Format Hardcover |
Publisher Little Brown & Co |
Date 2002 |
Price $1.00 |
Used, Very Good |
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.
Media 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."
Excerpt
Memorial Day is the porch before the house of summer.
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