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Epitaph for a peach : four seasons on my family farm / David Mas Masumoto.
- Title
- Epitaph for a peach : four seasons on my family farm / David Mas Masumoto.
- Author
- Masumoto, David Mas
- Publication
- [San Francisco] : HarperSanFrancisco, 1996.
- ©1995
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | S417.M366 A3 1995 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Child, Julia
- Description
- xii, 233 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
- Summary
- An eloquent piece of nature writing by a young author with a farmer's calluses and a poet's soul, this book is about saving a peach, saving a farm, saving a family, saving a way of life--it is a story about finding "home."--Publisher description.
- Subjects
- Japanese American farmers
- Peach growers
- Raisins
- Peach
- Farm life
- Autobiographies
- Biographies
- Masumoto, David Mas
- California > Del Rey
- Peaches
- Japanese Americans > Biography
- Peach growers > Biography
- Raisins > California > Del Rey
- Peach > California > Del Rey
- Farm life > California > Del Rey
- Japanese American farmers > California > Del Rey > Biography
- Peach growers > California > Del Rey > Biography
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies
- Biographies
- Autobiographies.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Spring work -- Workers of the land -- As if the farmer died -- New farm, old pests -- Learning to fail -- Summer work -- Family farm -- Wild walks -- Harvests -- September is not to be trusted -- Year begins -- Autumn work -- Orphaned -- Farming with ghosts -- Winter work -- Return of the egret.
- ISBN
- 006251024X
- 9780062510242
- 0062510258
- 9780062510259
- LCCN
- 94039527
- OCLC
- 31329994
- SCSB-11523392
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library