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    The Earth Is Enough: Growing Up in a World of Flyfishing, Trout & Old Men
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    The Earth Is Enough: Growing Up in a World of Flyfishing, Trout & Old Men
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    The Earth Is Enough: Growing Up in a World of Flyfishing, Trout & Old Men

    By Harry Middleton

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    In this touching memoir of his boyhood on a farm in the Ozark foothills, Harry Middleton joins the front rank of nature writers alongside Edward Hoagland and Annie Dillard. It is the year1965, a year rife with change in the world and in the life of a boy whose tragic loss of innocence leads him to the healing landscape of the Ozarks. Haunted by indescribable longing, twelve year old Harry is turned over to two enigmatic guardians, men as old as the hills they farm and as elusive and beautiful as the trout they fish for with religious devotion. Seeking strength and purpose from life, Harry learns from his uncle, grandfather, and their crazy Sioux neighbor, Elias Wonder, that the pulse of life beats from within the deep constancy of the earth, and from one’s devotion to it. Amidst the rhythm of an ancient cadence, Harry discovers his home: a farm, a mountain stream, and the eye of a trout rising.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGraphic Arts Books
    Release dateFeb 1, 1996
    ISBN9780871089656
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    The Earth Is Enough: Growing Up in a World of Flyfishing, Trout & Old Men
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    Harry Middleton

    Harry Middleton is a critically acclaimed author whose books include The Earth is Enough, The Bright Country and Rivers of Memory. He is the recipient of the Friends of American Writers Award, the Outdoor Writers Association of American Best Book Award, and the Southeastern Outdoor Press Best Book Award. He passed away unexpectedly in 1993 at the age of 43.

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      Harry Middleton's memoir of growing up in the Ozarks floored me. Middleton, like memoirists, does not sacrifice style or beauty for the sake of objectivity and renders the lives of his great-uncle Albert and grandfather Emerson in a humble and reverant style. Middleton brilliantly structures the text, circling around his memories and the actions of the narrative like a hawk waiting to dive. And your heart gets the talons.