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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Counterpoint
Publication date
January 30, 2005
Pages
307
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781593760335
ISBN-10
1593760337
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.50 by 9 in.
Weight
0.80 lbs.
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$16.00
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
The poet explores the people and landscape of southwestern France, chronicling the complexities and contradictions of French peasants from the ground-up perspective of gardening. Reprint.
Amazon.com description: Product Description:
In The Lost Upland W. S. Merwin vividly conveys his intimate knowledge of the people and the countryside in this ancient part of France (home of the Lascaux caves). In three narratives of small-town life, Merwin shows with matchless poetic and narrative power how the past is still palpably present.
On its original publication in 1992 Jane Kramer wrote, "These stories are a gift from one of the great poets of the English language, a chronicle of the heartstopping seasons of one small corner of La France Profonde and of its stubborn and illusive characters. Merwinâs French peasants are a force of nature, like the blackberry brambles that used to choke his garden, and he cultivates them both with that attentive, exacting, and relentlessly patient genius that great poets and great gardeners share. This is, simply, the most beautiful writing about France I know."
On its original publication in 1992 Jane Kramer wrote, "These stories are a gift from one of the great poets of the English language, a chronicle of the heartstopping seasons of one small corner of La France Profonde and of its stubborn and illusive characters. Merwinâs French peasants are a force of nature, like the blackberry brambles that used to choke his garden, and he cultivates them both with that attentive, exacting, and relentlessly patient genius that great poets and great gardeners share. This is, simply, the most beautiful writing about France I know."
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Hardcover
from Alfred a Knopf Inc (March 1, 1992)
9780679405269 | details & prices | 6.25 × 9.50 × 1.50 in. | 1.35 lbs | List price $22.00
About: A collection of stories pays tribute to the ancient land of the Lascaux caves in southwestern France, where aristocrats, shepherds, wine merchants, and innkeepers lead anachronistic lives
About: A collection of stories pays tribute to the ancient land of the Lascaux caves in southwestern France, where aristocrats, shepherds, wine merchants, and innkeepers lead anachronistic lives
Paperback
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Reprint edition from Counterpoint (January 30, 2005)
9781593760335 | details & prices | 307 pages | 5.50 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $16.00
About: The poet explores the people and landscape of southwestern France, chronicling the complexities and contradictions of French peasants from the ground-up perspective of gardening.
About: The poet explores the people and landscape of southwestern France, chronicling the complexities and contradictions of French peasants from the ground-up perspective of gardening.
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