More Scenes from Rural Life - Hardcover

Klinkenborg, Verlyn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1616891564 ISBN 13: 9781616891565

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press, 2013

Synopsis

Verlyn Klinkenborg's regular column, The Rural Life , is one of the most read and beloved in the New York Times. Since 1997, he has written eloquently on every aspect, large and small, of life on his upstate New York farm, including his animals, the weather and landscape, and the trials and rewards of physical labor, as well as broader issues about agriculture and land use behind farming today. Klinkenborg's pieces are admired as much for their poetic writing as for their insight: peonies are the sheepdog of flowers," dry snow "tumbles offthe angled end of the plow-blade as if each crystal were completely independent, almost charged with static electricity," and land is most valuable "for its silence, its freedom from language." Klinkenborg writes with a grace and understanding that makes us more aware of the world around us, whether we live on a farm or in the middle of a city. More Scenes from the Rural Life gathers together 150 of his best pieces since his last collection, The Rural Life , was published a decade ago. For anybody with an appreciation of nature, language, or both, this book is certain to delight."

About this title

About the Author

Verlyn Klinkenborg’s work has appeared in many magazines, including The New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, National Geographic, The New Republic, Audubon, GQ and The New York Times Magazine. He has taught literature and creative writing at Fordham University, St Olaf College, Bennington College and Harvard University and is the recipient of the 1991 Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writer’s Award and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.

From the Back Cover

Klinkenborg's fifth book (Making Hay, The Last Fine Time, Rural Life 1 and Timothy) is a selection of columns first appearing on the New York Times editorial page under the heading "A Rural Life." They document in vivid detail the daily challenges of life in the country and on a farm in particular. The columns are drawn from the past ten years.

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1616891564
• ISBN 13: 9781616891565
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Peake Nigel
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224