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The farmer's son : calving season on a family farm / John Connell.

Connell, John, 1986- (author.).

Record details

ISBN: 1328577996
ISBN: 9781328577993 (hardcover)
ISBN: 9781328577993 : HRD
ISBN: 1328577996 : HRD
ISBN: 9781328577993 (hardcover)
ISBN: 1328577996 (hardcover)
Physical Description: 243 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Edition: First US edition.
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

General Note:

First published, titled "The cow book : a story of life on an Irish family farm", in Great Britain by Granta Books, 2018.

Summary, etc.:

"For fans of The Shepherd's Life, a poignant memoir -- and #1 Irish bestseller -- about a wayward son's return home to his family's farm, and how he found a new beginning in an age-old world Farming has been in John Connell's family for generations, but he never intended to follow in his father's footsteps. Until, one winter, after more than a decade away, he finds himself back on the farm. Connell records the hypnotic rhythm of the farming day -- cleaning the barns, caring for the herd, tending to sickly lambs, helping the cows give birth. Alongside the routine events, there are the unforeseen moments when things go wrong: when a calf fails to thrive, when a sheep goes missing, when illness breaks out, when an argument between father and son erupts and things are said that cannot be unsaid. The Farmer's Son is the story of a calving season, and the story of a man who emerges from depression to find hope in the place he least expected to find it. It is the story of Connell's life as a farmer, and of his relationship with the community of County Longford, with his faith, with the animals he tends, and, above all, with his father." -- Provided by publisher.