{"product_id":"stone-work-reflections-on-serious-play-and-other-aspects-of-country-life-upne","title":"Stone Work: Reflections on Serious Play and Other Aspects of Country Life (Upne)","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eStone Work: Reflections on Serious Play and Other Aspects of Country Life (Upne)\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJohn Jerome\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780874517620\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eUniversity Press of New England\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1996\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e224\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eWith grace, style, and gentle, self-deprecating wit, John Jerome describes the back-breaking but soul-mending task of building a stone wall on his New England farm. The job begins on a whim-he decides to move one from his woods for the sheer pleasure of seeing it from the house-and as the wall progresses, the physical occupation leads Jerome to philosophical preoccupation. Thus Stone Work, first published in 1989, becomes a discourse on the meaning of craft, the stolidness of work, the gifts of the seasons, and the complexities of being male and fifty-five. \u003cbr\u003eJerome finds something pure in the lugging and the struggling with the stones, a clarity that leads him to insights into family ties, the tenuousness of nature's beauty, and his ongoing quest for fixity in a world of flux. \"Maybe gravity is all the alignment one ever gets,\" he thinks as he pushes a stone into place, \"and therefore all I ought to need. What more could one want, anyway, than the sure sense-right there, at any given moment for the noticing-of a straight line pointing toward the center of the earth?\" While his wall isn't a masterwork-isn't even finished-his hands-on labor allows Jerome to grasp some elemental truths; with him we come to see the \"riches, riches, everywhere, just for the paying of attention.\"\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"University Press of New England","offers":[{"title":"Stone Work: Reflections on Serious Play and Other Aspects of Country Life (Upne) | John Jerome | Paperback | 9780874517620 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks G 1766325","offer_id":49376922730648,"sku":"1766325","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/512BNS21FJL.jpg?v=1783022938","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/stone-work-reflections-on-serious-play-and-other-aspects-of-country-life-upne","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}