Eighty Acres

by Ronald Jager

Book Overview

In this richly detailed memoir, Ronald Jager evokes rural America of 50 years ago and a boy's life on a small family farm in Michigan. "Jager's memoir is full of life, an act of preservation tendered to us from an irresistible perspective of love".--The New York Times Book Review.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807070459
• ISBN13: 9780807070451
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Beacon Press (MA)
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

Audiotapes Eighty Acres

I received these cassettes is great condition. I needed them for a book review for school. Every tape worked and the book itself was great. I am going to be donating this audiobook once I am done with it to the Community College Library I attend since they do not have this audiobook.

CAPTIVATING

I have the audiobook version and I feel like I lived every moment of Jager's childhood. It's well written, open and honest; it's not only interesting, but a journey through the history of the American family farm.

Pure Delight

I couldn,t put it down, but I wanted it to last...Every page evoked a memory and a smile, or an outright laugh. It paints a picture with broad stokes, and fine insight. Wit and wisdom and loveable folks throughout...Sorry to see it ended.

Wonderful!

I did not grow up in the Great Depression, nor Michigan, when and where this book takes place. I grew up on a farm in Iowa in the 1960s, yet this book described my childhood perfectly! The work ethic, parental discipline and life in rural America Jager describes is now a part of history. I am thankful he captured it so well for future generations. If you grew up on a farm, you will love this book as well!

an invitation to michigan farming

The book was absolutely fabulous! It was as if the reader had been invited to take part in the michigan farm. It was heart-wrenching, yet funny at times. It made me remember that I'm a farm-boy at heart!