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The Rural Life
by Verlyn Klinkenborg
ISBN: 0316741671
ISBN-13: 9780316741675
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
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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"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."
-- Kirkus
"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." -- Rob Nixon
-- New York Times Book Review
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Little Brown & Co
Published date: 2002
Edition: 1th edition
Size: 6 x 8.5 inches
Weight: 0.75 pounds
Pages: 213
Publisher's 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.
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Klinkenborg, Verlyn
Boston: Little, Brown, 2003. Fine/No Jacket. ISBN: 0-316-74167-1. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Reprint. 213 pp. Fourth printing. Keywords: Nature - Essays. ( more information)
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Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 2002. 213pp, Lyricism in everyday rural life. No marks or tears.. Quarter-cloth. Near Fine/Intact Dustjacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information)
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Verlyn Klinkenborg
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Little, Brown and Company. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 2002. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0316741671 . 0.83 x 8.74 x 6.22 Inches; In THE RURAL LIFE, the hugely admired author of "The Last Fine Time" preserves and makes new the sights, smells, sounds, and poetry of country living. Here, Verlyn Klinkenborg reveals the beauty of the American landscape, not from a scenic overlook, but through a screened-in porch or from the window of a pickup driving down an empty highway in the teeth of an approaching storm. Klinkenborg brings reports of rural life back to us, his readers, with writing as vivid as high noon on a summer day or as dreamy as a dusk lit by fireflies. Composed in sections corresponding to the months of the year, The Rural Life highlights the pleasures and hardships, the reveries and stillness, that each season offers to the willing observer. Whether he writes of a small farm in upstate New York, a high pasture deep within the Rocky Mountains, or the bricked edge of a city shuddering in the wake of a "sudden Tuesday," Klinkenborg bears witness to nature's play in language as simple, unsentimental, and direct as life itself. . ( more information)
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Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Co, 2002, 2002. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good +. 64mo - up to 3" tall. Book and jacket is almost new condition. Very sound, clean and unmarked.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good +. 64mo - up to 3" tall. ( more information)
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Little, Brown and Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A very clean copy. Original price intact. Jacket, endpapers, and pages are clean and the binding is tight. ; 4801 . 0.83 x 8.74 x 6.22 Inches; 224 pp . ( more information)
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Boston: Little Brown and Company, 2003 Pages clean and tight, spine ends bumped and faded, dust jacket has light soiling and edge wear, flaps creased. Hard Cover Very Good/Very Good ( more information)
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Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Co, 2002. 6 x 8.5 hard cover book. Black, blue, and yellow lettering on the white and yellow dust jacket spine with a photo illustrated cover. In the tradition of E.B. White and Henry David Thoreau, Verlyn Klinkenborg gives us in The Rural Life a fresh view of our greatest subject, the ordinary beauty of daily life. 213 pages. 1st Edition. Clean with tight binding. Fine/Fine condtion.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. ( more information)
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Little Brown and Company, 2002. First edition. Illustrated. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket. Clean and unmarked inside and out, tightly bound. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 224 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. ( more information)
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Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Co. 2002. F First Edition. H Hard Cover. Fine. A year's meditations on the deep joys of the country life, arrangec by month. Tan boards with blue cloth spine, 213 pages, illustrated dustjacket. The book looks and feels new, with no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped and is in similar new condition. Very clean copy. ( more information)
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Verlyn Klinkenborg
Little Brown & Co, 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Brand New. 8.50 x 6.00 x 0.80. Brand new. Never read or owned. May have a remainder mark. 12.0 oz. 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. 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. 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. -- Kirkus Reviews (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. -- New York Times Book Review - Rob Nixon (12/01/2002). . ( more information)
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Boston: Little, Brown, 2003. Fine/Very Good. ISBN: 0-316-74167-1. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. First Edition. 213 pp. The jacket is price-clipped. Keywords: Nature - Essays. ( more information)
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Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Co, 2002. Unread, near fine in like DJ. 213 pp.. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. ( more information)
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Klinkenborg, Verlyn., Little, Brown & Co., 2002, c2002, 1st Edition, boards & cloth (hard cover), fine with fine dj (price-clipped), 213 pp, B&W wood engraving illus. by Reynolds Stone, 8vo, ISBN: 0316741671, "A yearlong meditation on the deep joys of country life ( more information)
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Klinkenborg, Verlyn
Boston: Little Brown, 2003. Nice, unsold, unread first edition, first printing of this collection of essays of a year of rural life.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information)
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