 Book details:February 2011
ISBN 978-1-55365-803-0
Paperback 5" x 8" 384 pages Environment $19.95 CAD
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Greystone BooksTrauma FarmA Rebel History of Rural LifeThe multiple award–winning portrait of farm life—“an altogether compelling read” PUBLISHERS WEEKLY For twenty years writer Brian Brett has tended a small island farm, affectionately named Trauma Farm. Poetic and evocative, this illuminating memoir of his experiences allows readers to reconnect with the land and get closer to the source of our food. “Brett hangs meditations of farm life, observations on biology and botany, and musings about the modern world on this Joycean structure. His writing is so vivid, the observations so telling, that a reader can virtually feel the smooth heft of a collected egg in the palm of a hand or hear the goofy, honking dawn call of the peacock.” GLOBE AND MAIL • Winner of the 2009 Writers’ Trust of Canada Non-Fiction Prize • Winner of the BC Booksellers’ Choice Award • Winner of the IPPY Awards Bronze Medal in the environment category • An Amazon Top 100 book for 2009 • A Globe and Mail Top 100 book for 2009 • A Times Literary Supplement Top 100 book for 2009 • Over 5,000 copies sold in hardcover in North America |
About the Author Brian BrettBrian Brett was born in Vancouver and studied literature at Simon Fraser University from 1969 to 1974. Writing and publishing since the late 1960s, he ... more >>Related Books Trauma Farm Sea of SlaughterNews & Events for Trauma Farm
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