A Ranch Bordering the Salty River

Book Review by Kevin Cooper on Stephen Page’s A Ranch Bordering the Salty River

Book Review

A Ranch Bordering the Salty River

There is a sincerity that runs throughout this short work that touches the soul as Jonathon shares the joys, hardships, secrets, and the dangers that entwine the life of a rancher in Argentina. It is the type of storytelling that mesmerises the reader as told through the voice of a poet. It captures in me in the same mood as would a poem written by Frost… So much that isn’t said is very aptly implied.

The sense of becoming one with the storyteller is very real as one visualises all that is going on. One becomes the persona sipping mate while taking in the beauty of the landscape, the woods, and the moon. One’s senses come to life with the scent of eucalyptus, the permeation of cow shit, the witnessing and aid of new life as a cow struggles to give birth…

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