"A kind of homemade book--imperfect like a handmade thing, a prize. It's a galloping, spontaneous book, on occasion within whooping distance of that greatest and sweetest of country books, Ivan Turgenev's A Sportsman's Notebook." --Edward Hoagland, New York Times Book Review
"His subjects are trees and brush, hired help, fences, soil, armadillos and other wildlife, flood and drought, local history, sheep and goats . . . and they come to us reshaped and reenlivened by his agreeably individual (and sometimes cranky) notions." --New Yorker
"If...
"A kind of homemade book--imperfect like a handmade thing, a prize. It's a galloping, spontaneous book, on occasion within whooping distance of tha...
"Another fine, reflective, anecdotal look at rural Texas." --New Yorker
"Graves writes eloquently about a countryman's concerns. There's not a false note in the book." --Boston Globe
"Like the unmortared stone fences of Graves's native hill country, From a Limestone Ledge is constructed of bits and pieces never designed to fit together, yet made to achieve a unity that is more enduring than the sum of its individual parts by the hands of a master craftsman." --Southwestern Historical Quarterly
"The beauty of his work endures, and there...
"Another fine, reflective, anecdotal look at rural Texas." --New Yorker
"Graves writes eloquently about a countryman's concerns. The...
