City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind’s eye the notion of a better life ahead.
Edward Hoagland Quotes
Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.
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| Birth: | 21st December, 1932 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Essayist, Novelist |
About
Edward Hoagland was born in New York. He is an American essayist and novelist. He helped to tend the big cats and later sold a novel about this experience, Cat Man, before graduating from Harvard in 1954. After serving two years in the Army, he published The Circle Home, a novel about boxing, before going on the first of nine trips to Alaska and British Columbia. In 2005, Hoagland retired from a teaching position at Bennington College in Vermont.
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