The Last of the Husbandmen: A Novel of Farming Life | Gene Logsdon

The Last of the Husbandmen: A Novel of Farming Life | Gene Logsdon | Not Just a Novel...

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	The Last of the Husbandmen: A Novel of Farming Life Gene Logsdon Ohio University Press, 2008 - 344 pages average customer review:based on 2 reviews view larger image
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In The Last of the Husbandmen, Gene Logsdon looks to his own roots in Ohio farming life to depict the personal triumphs and tragedies, clashes and compromises, and abiding human character of American farming families and communities. From the Great Depression, when farmers tilled the fields with plow horses, to the corporate farms and government subsidy programs of the present, this novel presents the complex transformation of a livelihood and of a way of life. Two friends, one rich by local standards, and the other of more modest means, grow to manhood in a lifelong contest of will and character. In response to many of the same circumstances?war, love, moonshining, the Klan, weather, the economy?their different approaches and solutions to dealing with their situations put them at odds with each other, but we are left with a deeper understanding of the world that they have inherited and have chosen. Part morality play and part personal recollection, The Last of the Husbandmen is both a lighthearted look at the past and a profound statement about the present state of farming life. It is also a novel that captures the spirit of those who have chosen to work the land they love.

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Wonderful tale of family farming and rural living

The traditional family farmer has all but been driven out of business by factory farms. This is am exceptional tale of one's man's struggle to continue the family farm lifestyle in opposition to the philosophy of "get big or get out". An enjoyable and warm, family drama. (If you like Wendell Berry's fiction about rural America, you'll also like Gene Logsdon.)

Not Just a Novel...

Gene Logsdon has hit a homer again with not just a novel, but an enjoyable morality tale parroting the Last of the Mohicans. It could be the Last of the American Farmers if people don't wake up to what's going on in the agricultural world around us. Read all of Logsdon's works if you want to still be able to feed yourselves and then go line your compost bins with the Big Ag rags.

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