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Wild Apples - Field Notes from a River Farm (Paperback)
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Wild Apples - Field Notes from a River Farm (Paperback)
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List price R457
Loot Price R372
Discovery Miles 3 720
You Save R85 (19%)
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There is a dreamlike quality to many of the stories in this new
collection from Wayne Curtis. In Wild Apples, he returns to
familiar themes of love and longing, and the push-pull emotions
which inevitably accompany any attempt to break free of the ties
that bind. Simple pleasures abound in these evocative stories, be
it fishing on the river, gathering beans for an evening supper (are
they beans or has-beens?), or listening to the jukebox at the local
diner. Curtis mines the shaft of everyday experiences, turning each
one into a meditation on human nature. In the title story, an
afternoon drive yields fertile ground as a father and son stop to
shake down a gnarled crab apple tree for the sweet-sour orbs of
autumn. With a seemingly effortless style, he casts his line into
the river of the past, reeling in tales of youthful folly, the
Christmastime birth of a little sister, and life on the Miramichi
River, which could be any river, anywhere. Curtis also shares his
insight into well-known friends, including novelist David Adams
Richards and Yvon Durelle, the Fighting Fisherman. His
contemplation of the life and work of Robert Frost casts a fresh
light on the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.
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