The author offers his trenchant observations on the inhabitants of his Maine seacoast village in essays built around such questions as why a town of eight hundred inhabitants should have two churches and the advantages of giving a child a calf to raise.
- ISBN10 0393019764
- ISBN13 9780393019766
- Publish Date 24 July 1985 (first published 1 January 1985)
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 23 August 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint WW Norton & Co
- Format Hardcover
- Language English