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| #78506 in Books | 2002-07-09 | 2002-07-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.70 x5.20l,.70 | File type: PDF | 320 pages||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Goodbye to a Lifestye|By BlasterMaster|John Graves will eventually be remembered as a 20th century Mark Twain. A through and through Texan, but with an unusual sensitivity to nuance and nature, capable of capturing in words sentiments that move and inspire the reader.
I once complained to Texas Monthly magazine that they were not publishing enough of his wo||“John Graves’s writing is invaluable. . . . The reader who misses Graves will have missed much.” --Larry McMurtry||“As you read, you have the feeling that the whole colorful, brutal tapestry of the Lone Star State is being unrolled for
In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream’s regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as would the lives of the people whose rugged ancestors had eked out an existence there. Graves therefore decided to visit that stretch of the river, which he had known intimately as a youth.
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You easily download any file type for your gadget.Goodbye to a River: A Narrative | John Graves.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
