Shatter Me with Dawn: A Celebration of Country Life

By Sally Russell

When Sally Russell decided to move a century-old house eight miles down narrow county roads to her remote farm, she knew some would think her crazy. But saving the house was more important to her than... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820322989
• ISBN13: 9780820322988
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.7" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Horses, Cows, and Other People

This is a fine collection of moving and often funny essays growing out of the author's trials and triumphs on a farm in the hills east of Atlanta, Georgia. More than the usual "back to the earth" escapade, author Russell created a working, livable farm out of some lovely wooded acreage and an old farmhouse that she had moved onto the property. The story of that move, with its encounters with narrow bridges, tree limbs, and school children dismissed from class to watch the spectacle, is typical of the book's essays: a wonderful eye for detail, and a humorous but respectful feel for the people who inhabited this adventure. Best moments include her discovery of the differences between cows and horses--a fall-down funny episode--and her depictions of the creatures (including people, of course) and the natural scene of her beloved corner of rural Georgia. It is no "stretch" to compare her writing with that of Thoreau.