Wise Acres: Free-Range Reflections on the Rural Route

by Michael Kluckner

Wit and watercolorist Michael Kluckner returns to the root of his good humor, a hobby farm beyond Vancouver's city limits, with refreshingly candid observations about animal husbandry. À la Herriott, Keillor, Bryson, and Mayle, he reinvents the domain of middle-age and expounds the merits of do-it-yourself living in an increasingly gentrified countryside. Reprised performances by the survivors of The Pullet Surprise complement characters that together constitute a world of breeding and killing best described as farm noir.

236 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2001