From Publishers Weekly

When Lewontin answered an ad for a sawyer's apprentice, he was transported from a comfortable, middle-class existence to that of the blue-collar laborer. PW called this close-up view of daily life at Parsons' mill, a ramshackle New England sawmill that makes ash dowels for furniture and ladder rungs, "a fine piece of Americana."
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