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

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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.

Language: English

Pages: 155

Format: Paperback

Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher

Release: September 01, 1994

ISBN: 087923282X

ISBN 13: 9780879232825

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

4.2/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 155

Format: Paperback

Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher

Release: September 01, 1994

ISBN: 087923282X

ISBN 13: 9780879232825

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