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1 online resource (1 audio file (420 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Alan Smyth. |
| Summary |
For fans of The Shepherd's Life, a poignant memoir-and #1 Irish bestseller-about a wayward son's return home to his family's farm, and how he found a new beginning in an age-old world. Farming has been in John Connell's family for generations, but he never intended to follow in his father's footsteps. Until, one winter, after more than a decade away, he finds himself back on the farm. Connell records the hypnotic rhythm of the farming day-cleaning the barns, caring for the herd, tending to sickly lambs, helping the cows give birth. Alongside the routine events, there are the unforeseen moments when things go wrong: when a calf fails to thrive, when a sheep goes missing, when illness breaks out, when an argument between father and son erupts and things are said that cannot be unsaid. The Farmer's Son is the story of a calving season, and the story of a man who emerges from depression to find hope in the place he least expected to find it. It is the story of Connell's life as a farmer, and of his relationship with the community of County Longford, with his faith, with the animals he tends, and, above all, with his father. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Connell, John, 1986-
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Farm life -- Ireland -- Biography.
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Cattle -- Parturition -- Ireland -- Anecdotes.
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Cattle -- Breeding -- Ireland -- Anecdotes.
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Calves -- Ireland -- Anecdotes.
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| Added Author |
Smyth, Alan.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781684574063 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1684574064 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12348900 |
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