From a Limestone Ledge: Some Essays and Other Ruminations About Country Life in Texas - Softcover

Graves, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870744852 ISBN 13: 9780870744853

Publisher: Southern Methodist University Press,U.S., 2004

Synopsis

This collection of essays about Texas pay attention to the complex peculiarities that distinguish the region.

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Review:

"A native son who left home, came back and actually liked it, Graves writes about Texas and Texans with full attention to the complex peculiarities that distinguish the region; but because he so lovingly particularizes, rather than generalizes, his thoughts come to us in larger terms, made universal by the art of language and feeling. Although permeated with a sense of place, Graves's writing translates Texas as though it were Anywhere, much as E. B. White took Maine and made it the world." - Washington Post Book World; "Graves's work is full of his awareness of the Indian and Anglo past and of his eroded slope back to prehistory." - Fort Worth Star-Telegram; "Graves accomplishes what can make essays so satisfying to read: He takes the mundane observations and details of everyday life and shapes them into something not mundane at all. What otherwise would have been a fleeting response is preserved in a form that others can share." - Christian Science Monitor"

About the Author:

John Graves is the author of two other Texas classics, Goodbye to a River and Hard Scrabble.

About this edition

• Publisher: Southern Methodist University Press,U.S.
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0870744852
• ISBN 13: 9780870744853
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• Illustrator: Wolff Glenn