The Rural Life

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Rural Life
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Verlyn Klinkenborg
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:224
Dimensions(mm): Height 210,Width 140
Category/GenrePets and the Natural World
ISBN/Barcode 9780316735513
ClassificationsDewey:508.73
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Little, Brown & Company
Imprint Little, Brown and Company
Publication Date 5 January 2004
Publication Country United States

Description

The hugely admired author of "The Last Fine Time" preserves and makes new the sights, smells, sounds, and poetry of country living. 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.

Author Biography

Verlyn Klinkenborg is the author of The Last Fine Time, Making Hay, and The Rural Life. His articles have appeared in many magazines, including The New Yorker, Harper's, Audubon, Smithsonian, and The New Republic. He teaches creative writing at Harvard University.

Reviews

"Klinkenborg works in short bursts of prose that are graceful but don't strain for the lyrical....His sentences find the perfectly apt metaphor to clarify, to make needed connections."