- Paperback: 33 pages
- Publisher: David R. Godine; Reprint edition (July 15 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1567920500
- ISBN-13: 978-1567920505
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 17.9 x 0.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 159 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,039,436 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This is a story about a man who lives alone because he chooses to. In his cabin in the New England woods, he lives with his collection of old newspapers and carefully saved nails, his mule and his owl. His much loved cousin, Nan, is just close enough to him to visit now and then. The man who lives alone leads a solitary life, quiet and content. In simple, lyrical prose, Donald Hall creates a moving and believable portrait of this affectionate, eccentric man, from childhood to old age. We understand why he is the way he is, the names and pictures of his days, and, finally, how those days will end. It's a story about self-sufficiency and about solitude, about the difference between loneliness and being alone, about living and about dying.
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Peace,
By Alyssa A. Lappen (Earth) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Man Who Lived Alone (Paperback)
I love four things about this book. First, this great contemporary poet wrote it. It also reminds me of Fisherman Simms, a book from my childhood featuring a similar character and pastoral setting. I love the simple but elegant black and white pen and ink illustrations.I also love the story. The nameless man built a camp on Ragged Mountain and lived alone collecting things, thousands of rusty nails, deer pelts, old newspapers and clocks, and "wasps nests hanging from railroad spike." He built a shed for his mule, who does have a name--Old Beauty. He survived a terrible childhood, a house fire, and when he was 14 left home and tramped around until he returned home to visit his cousins, who made a few years of his youth happy. He liked eating vegetables because "that is what the woodchuck ate." He made friends with an owl named Grover Cleveland. He worked as a carpenter and could do everything else too. Not much happens here. But this story offers an intense tranquility that others lack. In our harried age, children need this kind of peace. Alyssa A. Lappen
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5.0 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews) 16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
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Peace,
By Alyssa A. Lappen - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Man Who Lived Alone (Paperback)
I love four things about this book. First, this great contemporary poet wrote it. It also reminds me of Fisherman Simms, a book from my childhood featuring a similar character and pastoral setting. I love the simple but elegant black and white pen and ink illustrations.I also love the story. The nameless man built a camp on Ragged Mountain and lived alone collecting things, thousands of rusty nails, deer pelts, old newspapers and clocks, and "wasps nests hanging from railroad spike." He built a shed for his mule, who does have a name--Old Beauty. He survived a terrible childhood, a house fire, and when he was 14 left home and tramped around until he returned home to visit his cousins, who made a few years of his youth happy. He liked eating vegetables because "that is what the woodchuck ate." He made friends with an owl named Grover Cleveland. He worked as a carpenter and could do everything else too. Not much happens here. But this story offers an intense tranquility that others lack. In our harried age, children need this kind of peace. Alyssa A. Lappen 20 of 21 people found the following review helpful
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One of if not the most wonderful books I have ever read,
By bryanne calder@gsinet.net - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Man Who Lived Alone (Hardcover)
I read this book as a fresh eyed 18 year old. I am now a 40 year old woman tattered but not shattered. This happens to be one of those books so rare to me, I feel the same way about it today as I did the first time I ever read it. I gave my copy to my sister an English Lit. teacher. She uses it every semester. Mr. Hall signed it for her. I now only have a photo copy of it and it breaks my heart that I don't have the book. God Bless Mr. Hall and his most magnificent literary ability.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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A fantasy that many modern adults entertain from time to time,
By Charles Ashbacher - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Man Who Lived Alone (Paperback)
It seems to be a sociological law that every rural neighborhood must contain an eccentric old man. This story is about a man that lives quietly among the animals and other living creatures of the forest. He is not a hermit avoiding contact; he does odd jobs to pay his bills and has pleasant visits with people on a regular basis. Content with his self-selected lifestyle, the man has lived alone in his small cottage nearly all his life. Yet, he is not by himself, the spirit of nature is with him always.There is an infinite set of paths that a person can take through life and some of them are uncommon yet extremely fulfilling. To live a life outside the rushed and competitive environment of the modern world is a fantasy that most people entertain from time to time. This book is not only an expression of that fantasy, but it is also a lesson for children that the eccentric person that you may be tempted to make fun of might have a sustained better quality of life than you will ever enjoy. |
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