One Man's Meat
Down East Books · Print & ebook · December 10, 2024
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- Who it’s for
- A countryman’s experience becomes a sophisticated, funny primer, personal without settling into one genre.
- Genres
- Essay Collections, Humor Essays, Biography & Memoir
- Published
- Down East Books, December 10, 2024
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Too personal for an almanac, too sophisticated for a domestic history, and too funny and self-doubting for a literary journal, One Man's Meat can best be described as a primer of a countryman's lessons a timeless recounting of experience that will never go out of style.
Lessons Without Labels
A countryman’s experience becomes a sophisticated, funny primer, personal without settling into one genre.
Come here for
- Countryman’s lessons with a funny, self-doubting edge
- Personal reflection that resists tidy labels
Expect
- A timeless recounting of lived experience
- Humor and self-doubt alongside serious reflection
Where it sits
| Biography & Memoir | 34% |
|---|---|
| Essay Collections | 31% |
| Humor Essays | 21% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Essay Collections
- American Lit Crit
- Authors
- Malcolm Hillgartner, E. B. White, Blackstone Audio, Inc.
- Publisher
- Down East Books
- Published
- December 10, 2024
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Essay Collections