In These Hills
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.25 (955 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0803262094 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 180 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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"A moving tribute to Western rural life."—Clark Whitehorn, Montana Magazine
"Beautiful prose, an exquisite elegy for a vanishing way of life" according to Timothy J. Bazzett. I was simply blown away by Beer's way with words, by his ability to describe a hillside, an empty corral, the ruins of an old homestead, horsemanship, riding motorcycles - you name it, it's all so real, and yet there is an aching feeling of nostalgia for things, places and people that are gone now. It made me want to weep. And I've never been to Montana, never rode a horse or a motorcycle. And he is also a man who . What a wonderful book this is. J. M. Alexander I got this book from a friend a while back and just never really picked it up, but boy am I glad I finally did. Ralph Beers' prose is beautiful, and his descriptions of a way of life that's passing away are fit to bring tears to my eyes.If you have any interest in the West, especially the contemporary Western way of life, I recommend In These Hills very highly.. Essays finely crafted as a log barn or a good fence Ralph Beer is one of my favorite Montana writers. In both fiction and nonfiction, he's hard to beat. This collection of short essays describes his life as a rancher outside Helena, Montana. Many of them are humorous and rich with Western wit; some have a melancholy undertone; all are very finely crafted.Working a ranch that has been in his family for four generations, Beer slowly comes to terms with the futility of
After a lifetime spent writing and working on his family’s cattle ranch outside of Helena, Montana, Ralph Beer has gathered his best magazine essays into one collection called In These Hills. Stories outlast stone.". As Beer himself says in the final pages of this collection, "Stories outshine instruments of gold. In thirty-three essays he provides a moving and elegiac tribute to lives now passed, an often humorous homage to the provincial, and an attempt “to fathom the place where we live to decipher who we are,” as he writes in his introduction. Beer, praised as one of the finest writers in the West, offers an authentic literary voice paired with a lifetime spent exploring a particularly beloved piece of land. From his first experience with a wheat harvest, to the winter rebuilding of a 1947 Dodge Power Wagon, to his moving exploration of an old family mystery, these essays slice sharply under the sod of our embedded romanticism, exploring not only the brut