Making Hay
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (779 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1558216111 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-03 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
With affection and humor, Klinkenborg evokes a way of life at risk.. "Making Hay" portrays life on family farms in northwestern Iowa, southwestern Minnesota, and the Big Hole of Montana -- depicting the feel of work and the feel of the land when the hay is ripe for gathering
-- The New York Times Book Review, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt . Mr. what is most admirable about Making Hay is that it memorializes a way of life we take for granted. Klinkenborg has achieved a terse idiom that amounts almost to Middle Western rural poetry. Its language celebrates both the changes and permanence of modern farming, its earthiness and ethereality
Scott J. Tilden said Five Stars. Outstanding!. A Customer said Haymaker a knockout. 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 turni. Nice, But No John McPhee David Lewis 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 t