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Scribner, June 2010
Trade Paperback, 272 pages
ISBN-10: 1416561005
ISBN-13: 9781416561002
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Goat Song is the story of a year in the life of a couple who abandoned their one-bedroom apartment in New York City to live on seventy-five acres in Vermont and raise Nubian goats. In poetic, reverent detail, Brad Kessler explores our ancient relationship to the land and our gradual alienation from the animals that feed us. His fascinating account traces his journey of choosing the goats and learning how to breed, milk, and care for them. As Kessler begins to live the life of a herder, he encounters the pastoral roots of so many aspects of Western culture—how our diet, our alphabet, our religions, poetry, and economy all grew out of a pastoralist setting, a life lived among hoofed animals.
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Browse Inside Goat Song“A wonderous little miracle of a book.”
-- Tom Ashbrook, National Public Radio
"Goat Song offers a meditation on the pastoral life…that will make an urbanite regret having missed the experience.”
-- The Wall Street Journal
"The writing is so beautiful you want to reread sentences to savor it."
-- San Francisco Chronicle
"A multi-layered, smart, erudite, and incredibly well written book."
-- Christian Science Monitor
"Elegant and affectionate ...Goat Song has the tact and restraint of a good conversationalist."
-- The Times Literary Supplement (UK)
"Bounteous...transcendent."
-- Salon.com
North Adams Transcript, June 3, 2010
...is as much about pain as about pleasure. Following Gilley on June 10 at 7:00 p.m., Brad Kessler will read from his book "Goat Song," the story of a year in the life of a couple who abandoned their one-bedroom apartment in New York City to ...
Dayton Daily News, November 6, 2009
...Contact Sharon Rab at (937) 298-5072 or e-mail her at sharon.rab@daytonliterarypeaceprize.org. Selections from his new book, “Goat Song,” will be read by Brad Kessler, 2007 Dayton Literary Peace Prize winner for fiction, at 11 a.m. ...
KansasCity.com, August 2, 2009
...how far weve come since the reactive post-1960s hostility between urban and rural lifestyles in this country. Novelist Brad Kessler and his wife, Dona Ann McAdams, a photographer, just wanted to live in the country and produce their own ...
Vermont Public Radio, July 31, 2009
...Author Brad Kessler recounts a life with four-legged friends in his new book, 'Goat Song'. Kessler tells of his experiences learning to become a goat herder and cheese maker, and reflects on ...
Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, July 19, 2009
...You won?t find ?Goat Song? on any lists of must-read summer potboilers. After all, it?s a hermit writer?s memoir, about raising goats and making cheese on a Vermont farm. Not exactly the ...
Cleveland Live, July 12, 2009
...4by/k1%>Kristin Ohlson Novelist Brad Kessler grew up as a suburban New Yorker who blanched at the pleasures and pursuits of city life. 'The world of shopping malls and suited men on commuter trains reading ...
Metronews, July 10, 2009
..."Goat Song" Brad Kessler (Scribner) You won't find "Goat Song" on any lists of must-read summer potboilers. After all, it's a hermit writer's memoir, about raising goats and ...
Rutland Herald, June 27, 2009
...A bit of cheese changed novelist Brad Kessler's life. How it happened is the basis of his new nonfiction book, 'Goat Song,' due out this week. Kessler and his wife moved from New York City to ...
Rutland Herald, June 24, 2009
...A bit of cheese changed novelist Brad Kessler's life. How it happened is the basis of his new nonfiction book, 'Goat Song,' due out this week. Kessler and his wife moved from New York City to ...
Times Union, June 21, 2009
...between goats, cheese, man and writing You don't need to know a thing about goats to enjoy Brad Kessler's new book 'Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, A Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese' (Scribner, 256 pages $24). Kessler's ...
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