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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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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.
Subject
  • Masumoto, David Mas
  • Masumoto, David Mas
  • Peach growers > California > Del Rey > Biography
  • Japanese American farmers > California > Del Rey > Biography
  • Farm life > California > Del Rey
  • Peach > California > Del Rey
  • Raisins > California > Del Rey
  • Farm life > California
  • Farm life
  • Japanese American farmers
  • Peach
  • Peach growers
  • Raisins
  • Peach growers > Biography
  • Japanese Americans > Biography
  • Farm life
  • Peaches
  • California > Del Rey
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