Cidermaster Of Rio Oscuro

By Harvey Frauenglas

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874806607
• ISBN13: 9780874806601
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: University of Utah Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.7" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Beautiful and evocative

For some strange reason I read the University of Chicago alumni news and Mr Frauenglass had an entry that mentioned his book. Loving both the idea of farming as well as New Mexico I could not resist. The book is beautifully written evokes another University work I love "The River Runs through It" in the intertwining of the love of nature and striving to connect to it.

Moving

I have never read a book that made me feel quiet and humble like this book did. The author was very good at description and bringing the reader "into" his life. I went through the highs and lows of being a farmer and a father. Very moving, very enriching, and very memorable.

Vivid and touching

This is a wonderful book, beautifully written and immensely touching. The author interweaves vivid descriptions of his farm and its inhabitants -- both past and present -- with his observations on cider-making, the care of apple orchards, his wife's art, and his memories of his late, much-loved daughter. He doesn't gloss over the irony that, after he spent years working on nuclear testing, his daughter should contract breast cancer; but he isn't polemical about it, and by the end of the book his personal tragedy is subsumed into the rhythms of the seasons and the ongoing life of the farm. The timeline of the book is circular -- it's not a straightforward history -- but I felt that this further emphasized the cyclical nature of life in the orchard. I recommend the book unreservedly.

Tender hearted memoir

This is a very special tenderly written book about living...loving...working... and dieing. Every one can find something to relate too with Harvey in this book. I would highly reccomend it.