Dear County Agent Guy - by Jerry Nelson (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"In the tradition of Mark Twain and Jean Shepherd, Dave Barry and Garrison Keillor, Jerry Nelson is a humorist whose beat is the American heartland, a small-town world of pickup trucks and Sunday night pancake dinners, dropping in on neighbors and complaining to the country agent. A fourth-generation dairy farmer, Jerry Nelson discovered his voice after he wrote a tongue-in-cheek letter to his county agent for advice on what to do, after a period of heavy rain, about the ducks and Jet Skiers frolicking in his cornfields. From then on Jerry had a new calling to go along with his day job-writing a humorous column called "Dear County Agent Guy." Jerry's depictions of daily life, from the point of view of a taciturn husband with a twinkle in his eye, are read by 250,000 people a week--and occasionally woven into A Prairie Home Companion scripts. These are stories of courtship (Jerry refers to himself as a Norwegian bachelor farmer); childbirth (he offers the delivery room doctor the use of his calf puller); family (he beautifully describes rummaging with his sons through an abandoned family homestead); the duties of a husband (exactly why is it that a man who spends his days in cow manure can't change a baby's diaper?); the days of chores (never will the reader look at a grain silo the same way again). Knee-slappingly funny one moment, poignant the next, it's a very special look at a distinctly American way of life"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>"Jerry Nelson's column comes from the true heart of the Midwest. He has the true voice, the slow twang. He knows wheat from barley. He knows hardware, he knows vegetation, he knows people."--Garrison Keillor <p/> In the tradition of Mark Twain and Jean Shepherd, Dave Barry and Garrison Keillor, Jerry Nelson is a humorist whose beat is the American heartland, a small-town world of pickup trucks and Sunday night pancake dinners, dropping in on neighbors and complaining about the county agent. <p/> His depictions of daily life, from the point of view of an ex-dairy farmer and taciturn husband with a twinkle in his eye, are read by 250,000 people a week--and occasionally woven into <i>Prairie Home Companion </i>scripts. These are stories of courtship; childbirth--he offers the delivery room doctor the use of his calf puller; family; neighbors; chores; and the duties of a father--why is it that a man who spends his days in cow manure can't change a baby's diaper? Knee-slappingly funny one moment, poignant the next, it's a very special look at a distinctly American way of life. <p/> </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Jerry Nelson's column comes from the true heart of the Midwest, the place I try to write about while I'm flying around the country doing one gaudy thing or another, but Jerry actually lives there. He has the true voice, the slow twang. He knows wheat from barley. He knows hardware, he knows vegetation, he knows people. If the Lake Wobegon <i>Herald-Star</i> had a columnist (other than Harold Starr), it would be either Jerry or his cousin." - Garrison Keillor <p/> "funny and heartwarming" - <i>Successful Farming Magazine</i> <p/> "a fun, entertaining read" - <i>Beef Magazine</i> <p/> "The book reads like anecdotes from [Garrison] Keillor's fictional town of Lake Wobegon" - <i>Kansas City Star</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Jerry Nelson and his wife, Julie, live in Volga, South Dakota, on the farm that Jerry s great-grandfather homesteaded in the 1880s. In addition to his weekly column, his writing has also appeared in the nation s top agricultural magazines, including <i>Successful Farming, Farm Journal, Progressive Farmer</i>, and <i>Living the Country Life</i>."
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