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  • A Rebel History of Rural Life
  • By: Brian Brett
  • Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
  • Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)
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Trauma Farm

By: Brian Brett
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Summary

An irreverent and illuminating journey through a day in the life of the affectionately named Trauma Farm, with numerous side trips into the natural history of farming. Beginning naked in darkness, Brian Brett moves from the tending of livestock, poultry, orchards, gardens, machinery, and fields to the social intricacies of rural communities and, finally, to an encounter with a magnificent deer in the silver moonlight of a magical farm field. Brett understands both tall tales and rigorous science as he explores the small mixed farm - meditating on the perfection of the egg and the nature of soil while also offering a scathing critique of agribusiness and the horror of modern slaughterhouses. Whether discussing the uses and misuses of gates, examining the energy of seeds, or bantering with his family, farm hands, and neighbors, he remains aware of the miracles of life, birth, and death that confront the rural world every day.

Trauma Farm tells a story that's poetic, passionate, practical, and frequently hilarious, providing an unforgettable portrait of one farm and our separation from the natural world, as well as a commonsense analysis of rural life.
©2011 Brian Brett (P)2013 Post Hypnotic Press Inc.
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"Trauma Farm is a superb, wise, witty, and vivid weave of barnyard tales with deep insights into the fraught symbiosis of animals, plants, and man. Brett is a bold thinker and a tough yet lyrical writer." (Ronald Wright, author of A Short History of Progress)
"Brett's specialty is finding the unusual among the commonplace." ( Montreal Gazette)
"Brett's wit and giddy ambivalence makes this account a stretch more provocative than similar rural memoirs, and an altogether compelling read" ( Publishers Weekly)

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Be prepared to be put to sleep

Lovely entertaining writing style and story but the narrator killed it.. ideal as a nighttime story because his tone is so monotone and boring it send me straight to sleep. Hard to keep focus and attention. Such a pity as it was a lovely book otherwise

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