My Dogs and Guns: Two Memoirs, One Beloved Writer

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Over the decades Ive developed the impression that John Graves is the most honest writer in America, and also one of the best. Here is further evidence. Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the Fall
My Dogs and Guns pairs two memoirstwo halves of an outdoorsmans heart. First is Blue and Some Other Dogs, the story about Gravess favorite Basque-Australian sheep dog, Blue. Second is Guns of a Lifetime which is a nostalgic chronicle of the guns Graves has owned, beginning with a rusted and cylinderless revolver.
So here are the stories, Graves writes. They are not all nice tales in contemporary terms. Political correctness, as presently defined, may be perpetrated here and there, though I hope no parts will seem like the maunderings of a Deep South redneck. But if they do, the hell with it. I am too old to fret about such matters.
It is delightful, hardy prose from a treasure of a writer.
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Graves fans will find it a small treasure to savor and share.Houston Chronicle

John Graves career as an eloquent chronicler of rural customers has come to seem, depending on your point of view, either increasingly outmoded or ever more urgent.Austin American Statesmen

Like Ed Abbeys canyon-land writing, Graves's flinty but gregarious prose has become a part of the modern West.... A welcome addition to a distinguished body of work... It gives us the north-Texas master in full voice on subjects dear to his heart.Grays Sporting Journal

Over the decades I've developed the impression that John Graves is the most honest writer in America, and also one of the best. Here is further evidence.Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the Fall
Graves fans will find it a small treasure to savor and share.Houston Chronicle

John Graves career as an eloquent chronicler of rural customers has come to seem, depending on your point of view, either increasingly outmoded or ever more urgent.Austin American Statesmen

Like Ed Abbeys canyon-land writing, Graves's flinty but gregarious prose has become a part of the modern West.... A welcome addition to a distinguished body of work... It gives us the north-Texas master in full voice on subjects dear to his heart.Grays Sporting Journal

Over the decades I've developed the impression that John Graves is the most honest writer in America, and also one of the best. Here is further evidence.Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the Fall

Author Bio

John Graves (1920-2013) lived in Glen Rose, Texas, in the hardscrabble country that inspired so much of his work. He is a recipient of many honors for his writing, including a National Book Award nomination for "Goodbye to a River."