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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816228203321

Autore

Kilgo James <1941->

Titolo

Inheritance of horses / / James Kilgo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, : University of Georgia Press, c1994

ISBN

0-8203-4627-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (158 p.)

Disciplina

975.8

Soggetti

Outdoor life - Georgia

Georgia Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Indian givers -- Mountain spirits -- Coming off the back of Brasstown Bald -- High blood  -- Taken by storm -- Open house -- A gift from the bear -- According to Hemingway -- Inheritance of horses.

Sommario/riassunto

Reconciliation and remembering are the forces at work in Inheritance of Horses . In these essays, James Kilgo seeks the common ground between his roles as a man, as husband and father, and as heir to his family legacy. Pausing at mid-life to make an eloquent, understated stand against our era's rootlessness, he honors friendship, kinship, nature, and tradition. In the opening section, Kilgo focuses on the tension between his need for ritualistic male camaraderie and his familial obligations. Searching the woods for arrowheads, sitting around the dinner table at a hunting lodge, or careening do