Crammed into an unfamiliar pen with strangers of their ilk, dominant till this morning but milling, terrified, they were in pain as well from not having been milked. Rival buyers from meat companies in Massachusetts bid against each other for the frightened cows, mooing instead of lowing-old matrons who might have been leading a barn full of milkers out to pasture every day and back but had outlived their peak productivity and now were being disposed of. At 8 p.m., with no movie house in town, people congregated Tuesday on the short set of bleachers facing a wooden ring in which aging dairy cows were sold, mainly for hamburger, and vealer calves, also for slaughter, if not singled out by a farmer rebuilding his herd.
He has received numerous literary awards and taught at ten colleges and universities.ĭorothy and Karl took him to the evening auction sales.
He later traveled the world from Yemen to Antarctica to Assam, writing for national magazines. Hoagland has written more than two dozen books in sixty years, including the novel Children are Diamonds and his recent short story collection Devil’s Tub. Wells is best known as a writer of science fiction "The Country of the Blind and Other Stories" is a collection only incidentally touched by science.įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit following is from Edward Hoagland’s novel, In the Country of the Blind. I make no claims for them and no apology they will be read as long as people read them." (From the author's Introduction.) H.G. I like them, but I cannot tell how much the associations of old happinesses gives them a flavour for me. I have now re-read them all, and I am glad to think I wrote them.
Wells.Ī collection of Wells' short stories, with a short introductory essay by the author- "Essentially it is a miscellany of inventions, many of which were very pleasant to write and its end is more than attained if some of them are refreshing and agreeable to read. LibriVox recording of The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.
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