First Person Rural

Noel Perrin

ISBN 10: 087923833X / ISBN 13: 9780879238339

Published by David R. Godine Publisher September 1994, 1994

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: First Person Rural
• Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher September 1994
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 087923833X
• ISBN 13: 9780879238339
• Binding: Paper Back
• Illustrator: Harvard, Stephen
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Nature Writing

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Synopsis

These essays, all concerned with countryish things, range from intensely practical to mildly literary. Transplanted from New York fifteen years ago and now a real-life Vermont farmer, Noel Perrin candidly admits to hilarious early mistakes (“In Search of the Perfect Fence Post”) while presenting down-to-earth advice on such rural necessities as “Sugaring on $15 a Year,” “Raising Sheep,” and “Making Butter in the Kitchen.”
But, as everyone who has read his essays in The New Yorker, Country Journal, and Vermont Life will confirm, not everything Perrin writes is strictly about the exigencies of country life. While one essay seems to discuss the use of wooden sap buckets, it really addresses the nature of illusion and reality as they coexist in rural places.

About the Author

Noel Perrin was an American essayist and professor of English and environmental studies at various colleges, including Dartmouth and Warsaw University. He was the author of thirteen books and a frequent contributor to Vermont Life, Country Journal, The New Yorker, and other magazines.