num_pages: 155
description: This is a collection of stories diverse in subject, but sutured together by the limitless affection the author holds for the land and the people of New England. Donald Hall tells about life on a small farm where, as a boy, he spent summers with his grandparents. Gradually the boy grows to be a young man, sees his grandparents aging, the farm become marginal, and finally, the cows sold and the barn abandoned. But these are more than nostalgic memories, for in the measured and tender prose of each episode are signs of the end of things - a childhood, perhaps a culture.
language: English
title: String Too Short to Be Saved: Recollections of Summers on a New England Farm
titlecomplete: String Too Short to Be Saved: Recollections of Summers on a New England Farm
genres: American, Biography, Memoir, Essays, Biography Memoir, Short Stories, Poetry, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 367
publisher: David R Godine