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Book SynopsisOver the decades I’ve developed the impression that John Graves is the most honest writer in America, and also one of the best. Here is further evidence.” Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the FallMy Dogs and Guns pairs two memoirstwo halves of an outdoorsman’s heart. First is Blue and Some Other Dogs,” the story about Graves’s favorite Basque-Australian sheep dog, Blue. Second is Guns of a Lifetime” which is a nostalgic chronicle of the guns Graves has owned, beginning with a rusted and cylinderless” revolver.
So here are the stories,” Graves writes. They are not all nice’ tales in contemporary terms. Political correctness, as presently defined, may be perpetrated here and there, though I hope no parts will seem like the maunderings of a Deep South redneck. But if they do, the hell with it. I am too old to fret about such matters.”
It is delightful, hardy prose from a treasure of a writer.
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Trade ReviewGraves fans will find it a small treasure to savor and share.”
Houston ChronicleJohn Graves’ career as an eloquent chronicler of rural customers has come to seem, depending on your point of view, either increasingly outmoded or ever more urgent.”
Austin American StatesmenLike Ed Abbey’s canyon-land writing, Graves's flinty but gregarious prose has become a part of the modern West.... A welcome addition to a distinguished body of work... It gives us the north-Texas master in full voice on subjects dear to his heart.”
Gray’s Sporting JournalOver the decades I've developed the impression that John Graves is the most honest writer in America, and also one of the best. Here is further evidence.”Jim Harrison, author of
Legends of the FallGraves fans will find it a small treasure to savor and share.”
Houston ChronicleJohn Graves’ career as an eloquent chronicler of rural customers has come to seem, depending on your point of view, either increasingly outmoded or ever more urgent.”
Austin American StatesmenLike Ed Abbey’s canyon-land writing, Graves's flinty but gregarious prose has become a part of the modern West.... A welcome addition to a distinguished body of work... It gives us the north-Texas master in full voice on subjects dear to his heart.”
Gray’s Sporting JournalOver the decades I've developed the impression that John Graves is the most honest writer in America, and also one of the best. Here is further evidence.”Jim Harrison, author of
Legends of the Fall
