{"product_id":"string-too-short-to-be-saved-recollections-of-summers-on-a-new-england-farm-9781567928266","title":"String Too Short to Be Saved: Recollections of Summers on a New England Farm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"These vivid New Hampshire farm sketches from Hall's well-spent youth--all written when he was full-grown--are as much attuned to the supple and enticing utilities of language as they are grounded in a vanished time which may, at a glimpse, seem simple, but were complex and rich and not simple at all.\"--Richard Ford\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHall, Donald:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDonald Hall\u003c\/b\u003e was not only one of America's poet laureates but one of the great personal essayists. \"If any American writer deserves the description of 'man of letters, '\" the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e wrote, \"it is Donald Hall.\" Mr. Hall approached writing as he approached life--with simplicity, affection, and a wry wit. He distilled the human experience with a sense of humor that readers will return to again and again, each time learning something new. His work glows with the affection he held for the land, the people, and the customs of rural New England, and especially for the small, New Hampshire dairy farm near Ragged Mountain he visited every summer as a child. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOkrent, Daniel:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel Okrent\u003c\/b\u003e was the first public editor of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, editor-at-large of \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, and managing editor of \u003ci\u003eLife\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. Among his books, \u003ci\u003eGreat Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center\u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in history, and \u003ci\u003eLast Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition\u003c\/i\u003e was honored by the American Historical Association as 2011's best book of American history. Okrent lives in Manhattan and on Cape Cod with his wife, poet Rebecca Okrent.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nonpareil Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51253973942546,"sku":"9781567928266","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4b7f2e19-e514-4dfd-b6c2-d9005f1526c8.jpg?v=1772013865","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/string-too-short-to-be-saved-recollections-of-summers-on-a-new-england-farm-9781567928266","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}