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Still Life with Chickens: Starting Over in a House by the Sea By Catherine Goldhammer ( Hudson Street Press )
Release Date: 2006-04-20
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Product Description
In this beautifully written and frequently funny memoir, Catherine Goldhammer, newly separated, along with her twelve-year-old daughter, starts life anew in a cottage by the sea, in a rustic town where live bait is sold from vending machines. Partly to please her daughter and partly for reasons not clear to her at the time, she begins this year of transition by purchasing six baby chickens—whose job, she comes to suspect, is to pull her and her daughter forward out of one life and into another. An unforgettable story filled with hope and grace, Still Life with Chickens shows how transcendent wisdom can be found in the most unlikely of places.
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 A must for the back yard flock owner. Or someone thinking about it ( halloweenmom )
I read about this book on a online community for back yard chicken owners(Shout out to ya all!!!) It was written by a member that I havent met.
And it is so well written. I barely get time to myself so a book for me is a treat. And this was a well chosen one.
Funny and written with wit. A look inside the "addiction" that is chickens.
Story begins with the demise of her marriage and the subsequent sale of her large home in the ritzy part of town. The promise to her daughter of chickens and the intense research her daughter then does. A move to a small, close community with the usual, and unusual dwellers. And the lengths chicken owners then go through for their chooks.
From delivery to first brooder, to first coop. It is a learning adventure for the writer, her daughter and the reader.
Very highly recommended for all pet owners and anyone thinking of beginning a life with chickens.
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Still Life with Chickens ( skeys12 )
What a wonderful story about life and about living with chickens. Her descriptions are accurate, insightful, and very funny. Loved it!
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Beautiful memoir for midlifers ( cindy1517 )
It's rare to find such a sweet, satisfying read on the topic of midlife changes and detours. While there's nothing terribly new in this memoir -- we've all read about painful divorces and renovating ramshackle houses in far-flung locations -- Catherine Goldhammer's voice and the clarity of her writing make this book highly relatable to women in the throes of change. As an empty nester facing transitions of another kind, I melted into the pages of this book and found comfort. Wish I could find more like it.
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Delightful ( noelrd )
This is a charming little book,with a happy ending..Perfect reading for a long trip on a plane, train, automobile..or a waiting room.
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The Tao of Chickens ( authorhamlett )
There are numerous self-help books on the market that enable people to cope with major life transitions - divorce, the death of a spouse, the move to a new neighborhood, the onset of empty-nest syndrome. Nothing attacks life changes better, though, than the wit and mirth of Caterine Goldhammer's "Still Life With Chickens". Her conversational style is hilarious and reads as if she is sitting across the table from you over coffee and talking about her move to a fixer-upper house by the sea. My favorite paragraph is her observation about the simplicity of life as seen through the eyes of her brood of fluffy chicks: "The chickens went about their little chicken lives, eating and drinking and pecking. When I picked them up, they settled into the hammock I made of my shirt and went to sleep. Their beady little eyes drooped and they leaned their little heads against my thumb. Chickens are masters at living in the moment. I should stop worrying about them, I told myself. I should bow to their greater wisdom."
A must-buy book for giving to friends who need a good laugh during difficult times.
Christina Hamlett
Author of "Movie Girl" and "Screenwriting for Teens"
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