From a Limestone Ledge: Some Essays and Other Ruminations about Country Life in Texas
Author:   John Graves
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
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9781477309360


Pages:   253
Publication Date:   09 February 2016
Format:   Paperback
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From a Limestone Ledge: Some Essays and Other Ruminations about Country Life in Texas


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""Another fine, reflective, anecdotal look at rural Texas."" -New Yorker ""Graves writes eloquently about a countryman's concerns. There's not a false note in the book."" -Boston Globe ""Like the unmortared stone fences of Graves's native hill country, From a Limestone Ledge is constructed of bits and pieces never designed to fit together, yet made to achieve a unity that is more enduring than the sum of its individual parts by the hands of a master craftsman."" -Southwestern Historical Quarterly ""The beauty of his work endures, and there is a greater pride in Texans' hearts for their home, I think, than there would be if he hadn't written the books he did."" -Rick Bass, Garden & Gun ""In describing the particulars of his surroundings, Graves often was describing the world in microcosm and the place and plight of humankind in it."" -Bryan Woolley, Dallas Morning News

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Author:   John Graves
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
Imprint:   University of Texas Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.286kg
ISBN:  

9781477309360


ISBN 10:   1477309365
Pages:   253
Publication Date:   09 February 2016
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Bill Wittliff Preface Coping Notes of an Uncertain Bluecollar Man More Than Most People Probably Want to Know About Fences Building Fever Meat Vin du Pays Trash as Treasure Kindred Spirits Creatures Nineteen Cows A Few Words in Favor of Goats Of Bees and Men Blue and Some Other Dogs Some Chickens I Have Known Ponderings, People, and Other Oddments Noticing Weather Between East and West Coronado’s Stepchildren Tobacco Without Smoke I: Dippers Tobacco Without Smoke II: Chewers One’s Own Sole Ground A Loser

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A meticulous observer of the natural world and an equally precise crafter of the written word, John Graves (1920–2013)  is renowned for his Brazos Trilogy—Goodbye to a River, Hard Scrabble, and From a Limestone Ledge. He is widely acknowledged as Texas’s most beloved writer.

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