{"product_id":"hard-scrabble-observations-on-a-patch-of-land-1477309357","title":"Hard Scrabble: Observations on a Patch of Land","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1477309357\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Graves, John\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA kind of homemade book-imperfect like a handmade thing, a prize. Its a galloping, spontaneous book, on occasion within whooping distance of that greatest and sweetest of country books, Ivan Turgenevs A Sportsmans Notebook. -Edward Hoagland, New York Times Book ReviewHis subjects are trees and brush, hired help, fences, soil, armadillos and other wildlife, flood and drought, local history, sheep and goats . . . and they come to us reshaped and reenlivened by his agreeably individual (and sometimes cranky) notions. -New YorkerIf Goodbye to a River was in some sense Gravess Odyssey, this book is his [version of Hesiods] Works and Days. It is partly a book about work, partly a book about nature, but mostly a book about belonging. In the end John Graves has learned to belong to his patch of land so thoroughly that at moments he can sense in himself a unity with medieval peasants and Sumerian farmers, working with their fields by the Tigris. -Larry McMurtry, Washington Post Book WorldHard Scrabble is hard pastoral of the kind we have learned to recognize in Wordsworth, Frost, Hemingway, and Faulkner. It celebrates life in accommodation with a piece of the given creation, a recalcitrant four hundred or so acres of Texas cedar brake, old field, and creek bottom, which will require of any genuine resident all the character he can muster. -Southwest Review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52178072469792,"sku":"NEW1477309357","price":19.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/91bZxKxan-L.jpg?v=1786485290","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/hard-scrabble-observations-on-a-patch-of-land-1477309357","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}