Verlyn Klinkenborg





Verlyn Klinkenborg

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Verlyn Klinkenborg is a member of the editorial board of The New York Times. His previous books include Making Hay, The Last Fine Time, and The Rural Life. He lives in upstate New York.


Average rating: 3.71 · 1,656 ratings · 277 reviews · 29 distinct works · Similar authors
Timothy, or Notes of an Abj...
3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 209 ratings — published 2006 — 11 editions
The Rural Life
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions
Several Short Sentences Abo...
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions
The Last Fine Time
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1991 — 5 editions
Making Hay
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3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 18 ratings4 editions
Gardenscapes
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4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2003
Straight West: Portraits an...
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4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2000
More Scenes from the Rural ...
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013 — 2 editions
British Literary Manuscript...
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1981
British Literary Manuscript...
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1981
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“I look at the books on my library shelves. They certainly seem dormant. But what if the characters are quietly rearranging themselves? What if Emma Woodhouse doesn’t learn from her mistakes? What if Tom Jones descends into a sodden life of poaching and outlawry? What if Eve resists Satan, remembering God’s injunction and Adam’s loving advice? I imagine all the characters bustling to get back into their places as they feel me taking the book down from the shelf. “Hurry,” they say, “he’ll expect to find us exactly where he left us, never mind how much his life has changed in the meantime.”
Verlyn Klinkenborg

“Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.”
Verlyn Klinkenborg

“(Home is) a place we carry inside ourselves, a place where we welcome the unfamiliar because we know that as time passes it will become the very bedrock of our being.”
Verlyn Klinkenborg, The Rural Life



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