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Author |
Needles, Dan |
Title |
Letters from Wingfield Farm |
Edition |
2nd ed. |
Publish Date |
2002 |
Publisher |
Key Porter Books |
ISBN |
1552634272 |
Type |
Fiction (Paper) |
LC Call # |
PS8577.E333L48 2002 |
Genre |
Canadian author Humorous fiction |
Synopsis |
If you liked the one-man stage plays, you'll love the book.
Walt Wingfield has decided to live the life many a city-dweller dreams of -- moving to the country and buying a farm. Quitting his job as a Toronto stockbroker, Walt buys a hundred-acre farm on the edge of the Canadian Shield and determines to make a living using only two old racehorses and a single-furrow plow.
In a series of letters to the editor of the local newspaper, Walt chronicles his struggles, modest successes and spectacular failures.
Dan Needles has brought to life a marvellously evocative rural community, populated by eccentric philosophers, wily survivors, rascals, cranks, and modest heroes.
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