Acres and Pains | Social Concerns
The first of the humorist's thematic collections, Acres and Pains is an anthology of pieces that, according to Perelman, were "the by-product of a dozen years of country living." Each of the twenty-one stories is set on Perelman's farm, which he called the Rising Gorge (in 1961 he published the volume entitled The Rising Gorge which was another collection of tales about life on his farm). All but one of the segments were initially printed in the Saturday Evening Post (the other appeared in The Country Book), and each details a particular aspect of country living....
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