In Good Hands

The Keeping of a Family Farm

Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States
Cover of the book In Good Hands by Charles Fish, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Author: Charles Fish ISBN: 9781466896659
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publication: December 6, 2016
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Language: English
Author: Charles Fish
ISBN: 9781466896659
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication: December 6, 2016
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language: English

In 1836, Henry Lester moved his family from the Vermont hills to better land on the valley floor north of Rutland, beginning a saga six generations on a farm, which this book portrays and explores with an affectionate but critical eye. What gives the book its distinctive charm is its vivid evocation of a way of life: the beloved grandmother keeping house both as a shelter and as a temple of the spirit; the uncles sowing and harvesting, raising and slaughtering; the author, as a small boy, working with the men, fishing and hunting, and later, reflecting on the issues of pleasure and work, freedom and community.

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In 1836, Henry Lester moved his family from the Vermont hills to better land on the valley floor north of Rutland, beginning a saga six generations on a farm, which this book portrays and explores with an affectionate but critical eye. What gives the book its distinctive charm is its vivid evocation of a way of life: the beloved grandmother keeping house both as a shelter and as a temple of the spirit; the uncles sowing and harvesting, raising and slaughtering; the author, as a small boy, working with the men, fishing and hunting, and later, reflecting on the issues of pleasure and work, freedom and community.

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