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One Man’s Meat
- Author
- E. B. White
- Narrator
- Malcolm Hillgartner
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 5 July 2016
- Run Time
- 11 hours 48 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
In print for over fifty years, One Man’s Meat continues to delight readers with E. B. White’s witty, succinct observations on daily life at a Maine saltwater farm.
Too personal for an almanac, too sophisticated for a domestic history, and too funny and self-doubting for a literary journal, One Man’s Meat can best be described as a primer of a countryman’s lessons and a timeless recounting of experience that will never go out of style.
Critics Review
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“Imagine narrator Malcolm Hillgartner sitting by a fire, pipe in hand and dogs at his feet, addressing a ‘gentle reader.’ There’s a quaintness to this audio collection from the late E. B. White…Hillgartner chose wisely: A fast-paced, contemporized narration would have undermined the writing…[in this] authentically preserved time capsule.”
AudioFile
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“Modest in its size and presumptions, engaging in tone.”
New York Times Book Review
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“Great writing like White’s is timeless—a description that also fits Maine.”
Maine Sunday Telegram
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“This remarkable body of writing stands today, after half a century, as one of the greatest books ever written.”
DownEast
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“It is a lively record of an active inquiring mind, whose sense of the ridiculous in no way impairs his appreciation of the life he lives and the people he knows…Half-farmer, half literary—he contemplates the world around him.”
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Details
- Author
- E. B. White
- Narrator
- Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duration
- 11 hours 48 minutes
- Release Date
- 5 July 2016
- ISBN
- 9781504723619
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Literature: history and criticism
Synopsis
In print for over fifty years, One Man’s Meat continues to delight readers with E. B. White’s witty, succinct observations on daily life at a Maine saltwater farm.Too personal for an almanac, too sophisticated for a domestic history, and too funny and self-doubting for a literary journal, One Man’s Meat can best be described as a primer of a countryman’s lessons and a timeless recounting of experience that will never go out of style.
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