Bibliograph

String too short to be saved

Type

Label

String too short to be saved

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

String too short to be saved

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Nonpareil books, no. 5

Summary

This is a collection of story-essays diverse in subject but united by the limitless affection the author holds for the land and the people of New England. Donald Hall tells about life on a small farm where, as a boy, he spent summers with his grandparents. Gradually the boy grows to be a young man, sees his grandparents aging, the farm become marginal, and finally, the cows sold and the barn abandoned. But these are more than nostalgic memories, for in the measured and tender prose of each episode are signs of the end of things: a childhood, perhaps a culture. In an Epilogue written for this edition, Donald Hall describes his return to the farm twenty-five years later, to live the rest of his life in the house that held a box of string too short to be saved

Target audience

adult

Classification