Rebecca's review of Best Person Rural: Essays of a Sometime Farmer
Best Person Rural: Essays of a Sometime Farmer by Noel Perrin
This is a first-person view of the small Vermont town my fiance grew up in. His mother gave it to me at Christmas with the idea that it would give me a better idea of their part of the country . . . and it has, already. I read it at breakfast with a quiet cup of tea, and long to live on a farm in Vermont. Also, I now know how to put up a fence and make real maple sugar candy.
The collection of essays isn't anything stunning or extremely insightful, but the author was an English professor at Dartmouth College (twenty minutes from his farm in Thetford, VT), and his pieces are well-written, almost like journal entries written for the eyes of a friend.
I enjoy the book to the rating of four stars, probably, but that may be due to the personal connection.
The collection of essays isn't anything stunning or extremely insightful, but the author was an English professor at Dartmouth College (twenty minutes from his farm in Thetford, VT), and his pieces are well-written, almost like journal entries written for the eyes of a friend.
I enjoy the book to the rating of four stars, probably, but that may be due to the personal connection.
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