Country Life

By Ian Jack

Book Overview

The secret enthusiasms that sustain us-butterfly hunting, bicycling, bird watching, absurd days with a golf club or a fishing rod: what writers do or dream of when they're not writing- are explored... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1929001207
• ISBN13: 9781929001200
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Granta Books (Uk)
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Interesting Granta Edition

I was not thinking that this edition would be a great one because I don't have a strong interest in country living. Well I was wrong, an account of visiting an English town written about in 1969 and finding out how life has changed left me quite absorbed in the details. Doris Lessing writes about destroying a poor old chair from the 20's. An author finds letters written by her grandmother many years later and Studs Turkel writes about Bob Dylan. Good fun and I loved it.