Inheritance of horses / / James Kilgo
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| Autore: |
Kilgo James <1941->
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| Titolo: |
Inheritance of horses / / James Kilgo
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| Pubblicazione: | Athens, : University of Georgia Press, c1994 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (158 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 975.8 |
| Soggetto topico: | Outdoor life - Georgia |
| Soggetto geografico: | Georgia Social life and customs |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Inheritance of horses |
| ISBN: | 0-8203-4627-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910816228203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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