Patrick Joyce
Praise for Remembering Peasants
A dozen pages in I realized that I had been waiting for much of my life to read this extraordinary book. Anyone who has ever tried to unravel the intertwined skeins of ancestry, sociology, music, geography and histo ...
Annie Proulx
Joyce is the modern historian of uncharted lives and the landscapes of post-industry and post-agriculture. Like all the Joyces, he writes with extraordinary precision and grace
Colm Tóibín
A first-class work combining social history and ethnohistory with an unerring sense for a good story
Kirkus
A dozen pages in I realized that I had been waiting for much of my life to read this extraordinary book. Anyone who has ever tried to unravel the intertwined skeins of ancestry, sociology, music, geography and histo ...
Annie Proulx
Joyce is the modern historian of uncharted lives and the landscapes of post-industry and post-agriculture. Like all the Joyces, he writes with extraordinary precision and grace
Colm Tóibín
A first-class work combining social history and ethnohistory with an unerring sense for a good story
Kirkus
A dozen pages in I realized that I had been waiting for much of my life to read this extraordinary book. Anyone who has ever tried to unravel the intertwined skeins of ancestry, sociology, music, geography and histo ...
Annie Proulx
Joyce is the modern historian of uncharted lives and the landscapes of post-industry and post-agriculture. Like all the Joyces, he writes with extraordinary precision and grace
Colm Tóibín
A first-class work combining social history and ethnohistory with an unerring sense for a good story
Kirkus