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Chargement... A Country Year: Living the Questions (original 1983; édition 1999)par Sue Hubbell
Information sur l'oeuvreUne année à la campagne par Sue Hubbell (1983)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Ms. Hubbell shares glimpses of her life as a solitary beekeeper in the Ozarks of Missouri. Suddenly single in her middle age, this book is an exploration of what it means for her to be living on her farm, interacting with the multitude of life that shares her environment. Just enough curious facts make the book a revelation and the prose is straightforward and lovely. Sue, bióloga y bibliotecaria y su marido deciden dejarlo todo y marcharse a vivir a una solitaria y destartalada granja en los bosques de las montañas Ozarks, en el Medio Oeste de Estados Unidos. Sin embargo, al poco de llegar, el marido de Sue decide abandonarla. Ésta es, por tanto, la historia de una mujer enfrentada a las montañas, al invierno, a los coyotes, a las motosierras y, algunos días, a la soledad, pero sin perder jamás el sentido del humor y una mirada infinitamente curiosa y prendada por la belleza salvaje que la rodea. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la série éditorialeGallimard, Folio (2605) Listes notables
Biography & Autobiography.
Nonfiction.
A "delightful, witty" memoir about starting over as a beekeeper in the Ozarks (Library Journal). Alone on a small Missouri farm after a thirty-year marriage, Sue Hubbell found a new love-of the winged, buzzing variety. Left with little but the commercial beekeeping and honey-producing business she started with her husband, Hubbell found solace in the natural world. Then she began to write, challenging herself to tell the absolute truth about her life and the things she cared about. Describing the ups and downs of beekeeping from one springtime to the next, A Country Year transports listeners to a different, simpler place. In a series of exquisite vignettes, Hubbell reveals the joys of a life attuned to nature in this heartfelt memoir about life on the land, and of a woman finding her way in middle age. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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What an awesome book. Maybe I appreciate it more because she reflects on life in the Ozarks and observes the flora and fauna I'm familiar with, but her calm and intriguing style is accessible to all. I say anyone who has lived in Missouri should read this book in order to either acquaint themselves with the natural habitat or to foster a deeper understanding and appreciation for the state. She loves and is acutely aware of her surroundings--bees, fixing trucks, dogs-domestic and wild, termites, Good Old Boys and Simple Lifers, copperheads vs. cottonmouths, carpentry, chicken telepathy, serviceberry, water politics, just to name a few. This is an easy-going read with easy-going language and chapters of easy-going length. And while she wrote this coming out of a divorce, she examines her connection as a strong and independent woman to the natural world rather than taking on an "Oh, God, what do I do now?" stance, which I also appreciated.
You should read it. ( )