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Paperback / softback. New. Coming up on the thirtieth anniversary of its first publication, this book brings alive what one man feels about his childhood home. The place is West Texas, seen across a long vista in which today's events and people merge with the author's boyhood and young manhood. It is a harsh, remote country, where the weather is always close and the horizon far away. The Brazos country of long-ago Fourth of July fishing expeditions; the remains of a way station of the Butterfield Stage Line; the streets of Abilene; the sparse grazing lands under infinite skies - all are made resonant by a native son's affection and understanding. It is a way of life - resilient and persnickety - that is almost gone. Above all, it is people: the author's grandmother, who had a mortal fear of bridges and whose premonitions of unnamed calamities (that as often as not happened), both alarmed and pleased the young boy; the blacksmith they awakened in the dead of night to repair the family…
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A Personal Country Paperback - 1998
by A. C. Greene; Ancel Nunn (Illustrator); Afterword by A. C. Greene
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- Title A Personal Country
- Author A. C. Greene; Ancel Nunn (Illustrator); Afterword by A. C. Greene
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Revised
- Pages 360
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of North Texas Press, New York, NY
- Date 1998-06-15
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9781574410532 / 1574410539
- Weight 1.09 lbs (0.49 kg)
- Dimensions 8.43 x 5.57 x 0.95 in (21.41 x 14.15 x 2.41 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Mid-South
- Cultural Region: South
- Cultural Region: Southwest U.S.
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: Texas
- Library of Congress subjects Texas, West - Biography, Texas, West - Description and travel
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98197472
- Dewey Decimal Code 976.4
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