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Title: The Rural Life by Verlyn Klinkenborg ISBN: 0-316-74167-1 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 02 December, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Klinkenborg's words flow like a river
Comment: To my knowledge, no one describes the twelve months of the year more articulately than Klingkenborg. With a month-by-month description, he picks out all the details that he believes piece together a single day, and ultimately, a year. His words are deeply poetic; from the description of the windblown grass to the smell of the morning rain, the script strikes nostalgia into the hearts of all readers. The pure richness of Klinkenborg's book makes The Rural Life come to life with every word.
Rating: 4
Summary: Rural Life
Comment: This book was very interesting to me. I just love the way the author seems to make the animals that are in the book such as the horses, birds, bees etc... have so much life. The country life seems to be fun and adventurous for someone like myself because things happen in the country that I would have never expected.the funniest part in the book was when the author is explaining to the readers how they had early birds singing get up songs. I also really enjoy the entire chapters being broken down into months because it was easier for me to coprehend what happened and when. This book is so inspiring and full of details.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Book for All Seasons
Comment: Verlyn Klinkenborg's latest book has just been released and apparently it is flying out of bookstores everywhere (within 3 weeks of it's publication date, it had already gone into a second printing). Klinkenborg is a member of the editorial board of the New York Times, where, for the past five years, he has been writing a column entitled "The Rural Life." Some of us have been assiduously saving these essays, most no more that 700 words, not to mention the fact that we have been regularly sending them to our relatives and friends who don't read the Times. The fact that some 100 of them are collected into a single volume, ordered by the months of the year, seems almost too good to be true. This beautifully written book is about as close to poetry as prose gets.
The Rural Life is a book about observations, the observations of someone carrying the imprint of a childhood on farms Iowa and California, and now, in middle age, and somewhat to his own surprise, trying his own hand at farming on a small tract of land in upstate New York. One of the things that is so compelling about the book is the author's genuine sense of wonder and pleasure at noticing the small details of life in the natural world. By being quiet and gentle in his interactions, Klinkenborg finds himself receiving a free education where many have found only frustration. True, Klinkenborg has the luxury of not being dependent on farming for his livelihood. However, with so much bankruptcy in the world--financial, political, spiritual-we need somebody to remind us that if we just pay attention to the small change there's enough wealth for everyone.
Richmond, MA 12/20/02
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Title: Making Hay by Verlyn Klinkenborg, Gordon Allen ISBN: 1585747262 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Straight West: Portraits and Scenes from Ranch Life in the American West by Verlyn Klinkenborg, Lindy Smith ISBN: 1585740543 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Last Fine Time by Verlyn Klinkenborg ISBN: 0226443353 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: April, 2004 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Winter World : The Ingenuity of Animal Survival by Bernd Heinrich ISBN: 0060197447 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Gardener's Year by Karel Capek, Verlyn Klinkenborg, Josef Capek ISBN: 0375759484 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 19 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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