Farmer's Almanac
Subtitle: a Work of Fiction
Publisher: Emergency Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780988569454; 9780983693277
Subjects: Farm life; Fiction; Manual work; Odette County (Imaginary place); FICTION; General
Description: "In Chris Fink's debut work of fiction, America's rural core is cracked open to reveal moments of stark beauty and cruelty. Farmer's Almanac-a new Midwestern Gothic-is an imaginary handbook for rural living, as timeless and essential as its namesake. But this is no American pastoral. Fink's vision is more Orwell than Rockwell. Not since Winesburg, Ohio has a book so thoroughly plumbed the Midwestern character. A despairing farmer milks a dead cow, a baseball phenom chooses between the diamond and the dairy barn, and in the back of the school bus, a young girl fights back against her tormentors. Farmer's Almanac reports the new from mythical Odette County, Wisconsin, where the milk prices keep falling, and the forecast is not good."--Back cover.
Table of contents: title: The Bergamot Weekly Almanac; title: Country mile; title: Barnyard Billy Licks the Grass; title: Horseface Cunningham Breaks His Maiden; title: -Shady Valley Days; title: Farmer and Farmer's Radio; title: Boar Taint; title: Heartshot; title: Every Trapper Knows; title: Her Blue Rabbit; title: Amuck; title: The Great Engine; title: Unlovely Night at the Wooden Nickel; title: Down Shady River; title: Changing Room; title: Marigolds; title: Acknowledgments; title: Author Bio.