Author: Hall, Donald,
Title: The Man Who Lived Alone.
Description: Jaffrey, NH, New Books, New Readers, (1984). G PB. He built himself a camp on a side of Ragged Mountain and lived there alone in one big room where he found and kept a collection. of thousands of rusty nails which he found and straightened and saved, pelts from deer that he shot, old newspapers in a stack, old clocks piled everywhere, and wasps' nests hanging from railroad spikes. Bright bold illustrations. Reprinted by permission for the use of New Books, New Readers. A program of the Maine Humanities Council. About a man who lives alone because he chooses to, in his cabin in the New England woods. His much loved cousin Nan is just close enough for him to visit now and then. The man who lives alone leads a solitary life, quiet and content. Some glue spots on back cover and front endpaper. By simple lyrical prose, Donald Hall creates a moving and believable portrait of this affectionate, eccentric man, from childhood to old age, About self-sufficiency, solitude, and the difference between loneliness and being alone, about living and dying.

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