The Last Farmer: An American Memoir

by Howard Kohn

Book Overview

Howard Kohn's The Last Farmer is a memoir of his father's last seasons working the Michigan farm where they both were raised. It is a place that Kohn, a former editor at Rolling Stone, has left many... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671498037
• ISBN13: 9780671498030
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Summit Books
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Wonderful real life story that hits close to home!

This is a wonderful book that examines a father and son relationship in a Midwestern farming community. The struggles between generations and the authors own internal conflicts brought me to tears. The author captures the German-Lutheran morality and displays it affectionately. I loved this book because it showed the difficulty in following ones own dream, perhaps at the cost of someone elses dream. How to be true to oneself and find respect for making lifes difficult decisions. My father gave me this book to read several years ago and it sat in my desk unread. Two years ago, my father passed away, and I just now read the book. How I wish I had read it when he was alive. My thanks to Howard Kohn for writing such a wonderful book, one I wish I had written.