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Trauma Farm (2009)

by Brian Brett(Favorite Author)

4.09 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1553654749 (ISBN13: 9781553654742)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Greystone Books

review 1: A lyrical account of an eighteen year day on a small farm on Saltspring Island. You will not look at supermarket vegetables or meat and meat products the same way you might do now after reading this book. Funny and compelling, this is the story of a love affair between one intensely engaged human and the earth upon which he lives. His interaction with animals and plants is the stuff of great storytelling. His sense of impending disaster is documented and described soberingly, but with an infectious humanity. This is a book for both the city dweller and the rural inhabitant.
review 2: This meditation on rural, farm life on Salt Spring island did stagger a bit towards the end but Brett's poetic descriptions of the land and, especially, the animals who live and di... moree on his farm really drew me into his world. His observations of his healthy but hand to mouth existence in comparison to the factory farms that feed most of us did grow a bit repetitive but also made you wonder about the providence of your grocery meat. His talent shone when describing the personalities of the chickens, the pea hens, the sheep and especially the dogs and their relationships with each other. Brett did not romanticize farm life. It is often brutal and cruel but his description of his dog nosing a favourite ball onto the grave of a late canine companion demonstrated that these animals have souls as well. less

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