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Stone Work: Reflections on Serious Play and Other Aspects of Country Life - Brossura

Jerome, John

 
9780874517620: Stone Work: Reflections on Serious Play and Other Aspects of Country Life
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ISBN 10: 0874517621 ISBN 13: 9780874517620
Casa editrice: Univ Pr of New England, 1996

Sinossi

With grace, style, and gentle, self-deprecating wit, John Jerome describes the back-breaking but soul-mending task of building a stone wall on his New England farm. The job begins on a whim-he decides to move one from his woods for the sheer pleasure of seeing it from the house-and as the wall progresses, the physical occupation leads Jerome to philosophical preoccupation. Thus Stone Work, first published in 1989, becomes a discourse on the meaning of craft, the stolidness of work, the gifts of the seasons, and the complexities of being male and fifty-five.

Jerome finds something pure in the lugging and the struggling with the stones, a clarity that leads him to insights into family ties, the tenuousness of nature's beauty, and his ongoing quest for fixity in a world of flux. "Maybe gravity is all the alignment one ever gets," he thinks as he pushes a stone into place, "and therefore all I ought to need. What more could one want, anyway, than the sure sense-right there, at any given moment for the noticing-of a straight line pointing toward the center of the earth?" While his wall isn't a masterwork-isn't even finished-his hands-on labor allows Jerome to grasp some elemental truths; with him we come to see the "riches, riches, everywhere, just for the paying of attention."

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Informazioni sull'autore

JOHN JEROME lives in western New England, where he is a full-time freelance writer. He has written for various magazines, including Esquire, Playboy, and The New York Times Magazine. His books include The Sweet Spot in Time (1980), Truck (1977, 1995, see page 23), and a forthcoming travel book about water.

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Editore
Univ Pr of New England
Data di pubblicazione
1996
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0874517621
ISBN 13 
9780874517620
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
212
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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