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

John Graves (Author)

9781477309360, University of Texas Press

Paperback / softback, published 9 February 2016

253 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.286 kg

“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

  • 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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