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Title: Making Hay by Verlyn Klinkenborg, Gordon Allen ISBN: 1-58574-726-2 Publisher: Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Nice, But No John McPhee
Comment: The jacket blurb compares this book to McPhee's "The Survival of the Bark Canoe." While Klinkenborg tries manfully to achieve something like McPhee, he doesn't make it. He comes close at times, but only close and that not often enough.
From Klinkenborg I got only glimpses of the places and people living a life I know next to nothing about. He took me to the edge of the field, but not up close enough to understand what they are doing and why. A few times he describes machinery or processes well enough for me to see them, but most of the time he drops names with only the barest description, leaving me in the middle of nowhere. In contrast, when I finish one of McPhee's many books, I feel like I could BUILD the canoe, pick the oranges, or pilot the ship.
Klinkenborg does better with the people in the story, many of them family of his, and those parts were fine. But the heart of the story is in its title, and I was left wanting much more than I received.
Rating: 4
Summary: Haymaker a knockout
Comment: Klinkenborg knows this topic is off the beaten track. No puns, metaphors or euphemisms intended, it is literally a book about the production of hay in the vast fields of Minnesota and Iowa. His fascination perplexes no one more than the author's relatives, who make a living at it and observe his enthusiasm for the work with benign bemusement. Of course in the process of learning the family trade, Klinkenborg learns something about his own heritage, but he presents this as mere incidental observations, like an old friend waved to at the end of a row just before turning the combine around to get back to business. The writing is superb. I'd give it a 10, but he does tend to go a tad overboard with loving descriptions of the machinery.
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Title: The Rural Life by Verlyn Klinkenborg ISBN: 0316741671 Publisher: Little, Brown Pub. Date: 02 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Last Fine Time by Verlyn Klinkenborg ISBN: 0226443353 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Straight West: Portraits and Scenes from Ranch Life in the American West by Verlyn Klinkenborg ISBN: 1585740543 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Gardener's Year (Modern Library Gardening Series.) by Karel Capek, Verlyn Klinkenborg ISBN: 0375759484 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 19 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Now May You Weep: A Novel by Deborah Crombie ISBN: 0060525231 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 07 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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