In Myself and Strangers, John Graves, the highly regarded author of Goodbye to a River and other classic works, recalls the decade-long apprenticeship in which he found his voice as a writer. He recou
"A kind of homemade book—imperfect like a handmade thing, a prize. It's a galloping, spontaneous book, on occasion within whooping distance of that greatest and sweetest of country books, Ivan Tu
"Another fine, reflective, anecdotal look at rural Texas." —New Yorker"Graves writes eloquently about a countryman's concerns. There's not a false note in the book." —Boston Globe&
In Goodbye to a River, John Graves defined what it means to know a river—as a real place, as a landscape of memory and imagination, and as "a piece of country, [that] hunted and fished and roamed over
Since the publication of his haunting, elegiac Goodbye to a River in 1960, John Graves has become one of Texas’ most beloved writers, whose circle of loyal readers extends far beyond the boarders of h
