Ellyn Gaydos
Autor de Pig Years
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Pig Years por Ellyn Gaydos
A Year in Provence except in this telling the supporting characters are chickens, pigs, and rutabaga, not French contractors.
There is a lot of praise for this memoir; however, the reviewers have overlooked the struggle, and heartbreak of being a small farmer trying to make living with the capitalistic world that we live. It is not a pretty picture, though there are some good times they seldom make up for all the emotional pain.
This book is about the hard work of being a farmhand, spending a day with back bent doing serious vegetable farming, and killing animals. Killing a lot of animals.
Very poetic. Was sometimes hard for me to read for an hour at a time, because of its lack of narrative arc. But beautiful in places.
"I love him too, but I am promised to farming. I choose it over him every time. It is not like choosing between two people. How could you trade the sky, the water, or the mountains for a single heart? Instead I imagine the earth opening to take me into its fold."
"In the heart of summer, [we] are dwarfed by the farm, the sheer life force of it, pulled by the demands of plants and animals, pressed like blunt objects into the ground, buried in the work we have wrought."
"[T]here is always enough food to eat. This is the compensation for the crude work of training life into channels of fecundity."… (más)
Very poetic. Was sometimes hard for me to read for an hour at a time, because of its lack of narrative arc. But beautiful in places.
"I love him too, but I am promised to farming. I choose it over him every time. It is not like choosing between two people. How could you trade the sky, the water, or the mountains for a single heart? Instead I imagine the earth opening to take me into its fold."
"In the heart of summer, [we] are dwarfed by the farm, the sheer life force of it, pulled by the demands of plants and animals, pressed like blunt objects into the ground, buried in the work we have wrought."
"[T]here is always enough food to eat. This is the compensation for the crude work of training life into channels of fecundity."… (más)
Pig Years is a very powerful book about farming and the necessities farmers must do in order to feed their families and the world. The author put a lot of emotion into this story and it definitely tugs at the heartstrings. Very well written.
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 1
- Miembros
- 55
- Popularidad
- #295,340
- Valoración
- 3.7
- Reseñas
- 5
- ISBNs
- 4