Pig Earth
The first printing of the first volume of Berger's Into Their Labours trilogy
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Printing Details
First edition, first impression. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22 × 14cm, 213pp.
With this haunting first volume in his Into Their Labours trilogy, John Berger begins his chronicle of the eclipse of peasant cultures in the twentieth century. Set in a small village in the French Alps, Pig Earth relates the stories of skeptical, hard-working men and fiercely independent women; of calves born and pigs slaughtered; of summer haymaking and long dark winters of rest; of the message of forgiveness from a dead father to his prodigal son; and of the marvelous Lucie Cabrol, exiled to a hut high in the mountains, an inexorable part of the lives of men who have known her. Above all, this masterpiece of sensuous description and profound moral resonance is an act of reckoning that conveys the precise wealth and weight of a world we are losing.
Condition
The book is in good condition. The wrapper has tanning and light rubbing to the edges, the book remains in strong readable condition.
ISBN
0906495059
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