String Too Short to Be Saved Recollections of Summers on a New England Farm

Name: String Too Short to Be Saved Recollections of Summers on a New England Farm
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ISBN: 9780879232825

ISBN-10: 087923282X

ISBN-13: 9780879232825

Edition: 1979

Authors: Donald Hall, Donald Hall

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This is a collection of stories diverse in subject, but sutured together by the limitless affection the author holds for the land and the people of New England. Donald Hall tells about life on a small farm where, as a boy, he spent summers with his grandparents. Gradually the boy grows to be a young man, sees his grandparents aging, the farm become marginal, and finally, the cows sold and the barn abandoned. But these are more than nostalgic memories, for in the measured and tender prose of each episode are signs of the end of things - a childhood, perhaps a culture. In an Epilogue written for this edition, Donald Hall describes his return to the farm twenty-five years later, to live the…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 1979
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 155
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638

Donald Hall ranks among our foremost writers. He is the author of numerous books of verse & prose, including "Without," "The Museum of Clear Ideas," & "The Old Life."