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An American Homeplace Paperback - 1997 - 1st Edition

Name: AN AMERICAN HOMEPLACE
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Author: McCaig, Donald
ISBN: 9780813917757

by Donald McCaig

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In the tradition of Wendell Berry and John McPhee, Donald McCraig writes with a powerful sense of place about the history of Virginia's Highland County. This entertaining book is composed in part of essays he has written for various publications and for National Public Radio's "All Things Considered".

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In the tradition of Wendell Berry and John McPhee, Donald McCaig wites with a powerful sense of place, and of history of Virginia's Highland County, in An American Homeplace. On the fast track in the New York advertising world, McCaig gave it all up to move to a ramshackle farm in Virginia's upper Cowpasture River Valley.

Enhanced by the author's evident love for his land and for the stories it has to tell, An American Homeplace is an inviting combination of personal memoir and narrative history.

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Title An American Homeplace
Author Donald McCaig
Binding Paperback
Edition number 1st
Edition 1
Pages 228
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, Va.
Publication date 1997-09-29
Illustrated Yes
Features Illustrated
ISBN 9780813917757 / 0813917751
Weight 0.78 lbs (0.35 kg)
Dimensions 9.01 x 6.05 x 0.65 in (22.89 x 15.37 x 1.65 cm)
Age range 18 to UP years
Grade levels 13 - UP
Themes
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Geographic Orientation: Virginia
Category Inspirational
Library of Congress subjects Novelists, American - 20th century -, Highland County (Va.) - History
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 97015051
Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Donald McCaig is a regular commentator on NPR's All Things Considered and the author of Nop's Trials, Eminent Dogs, Dangerous Men, and the forthcoming novel Jacob's Ladder. He and his wife, Anne, operate a sheep farm in the mountains of western Virginia.

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