The Farm She Was

Mohin, Ann

ISBN 10: 1882593219 / ISBN 13: 9781882593217

Published by Bridge Works, Bridgehampton, NY, 1998

About this Item

This is a beautiful copy that has been SIGNED by Ann Mohin on the title page! "The Farm She Was" is the story of a strong and resilient single woman, Irene Leahy. It is also a story about our relationship to the land, to animals, to nature, and to each other. Seller Inventory # 5388

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Farm She Was

Publisher: Bridge Works, Bridgehampton, NY

Publication Date: 1998

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition/First Printing

About this title

Synopsis:

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection.

A story of love and loss, and the evolution of farm life as the 20th century unfolded, narrated by a feisty farm woman as she reflects on her life.

Review:

Ninety-year-old Irene Leahy has devoted her entire life to one patch of land in upstate New York, and she's not about to leave it just because she's grown old. At the age of 17, after her father's early death, Irene was left to run her family's sheep farm in Carniff County. The young Irene took to farm life with a vengeance, chopping off her hair and learning to breed prize rams. Fierce, capable, and independent, as a farmer she was a force to be reckoned with. Now, in her old age, friends want her to sell her land and move into a nursing home--a suggestion she welcomes about as warmly as a case of the croup. In her journals, Irene responds by chronicling the particulars of her long and hard-working life, from the rigors of lambing to the rhythms of the changing seasons. In telling Irene's story, sheep farmer Ann Mohin has written a first novel that's by turns wise and wistful, elegiac and earthy. Long on imagery but short on plot, The Farm She Was succeeds admirably as an ode to the beauties and hardships of a vanishing way of life.