What the book is about is friendship on earth, affection and protection, adventure and miracle, life and death, trust and treachery, pleasure and pain, and the passing of time. As a piece of work it is just about perfect, and just about magical in the way it is done.” ——Eudora Welty,The New York Times Book Review
High caprice on a farm, handled with wit and wisdom, [that]serves to put an imperfect world back into joint.” ——The New Yorker
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