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|author=David Esterly
|title=The Lost Carving: A Journey to the Heart of Making
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Bouncing between his studio in upstate New York and the sites of various English sojourns, woodcarver David Esterly's seems to be an idyllic existence. Yet it's not all cosy cottages in the snow and watching geese and coyotes when he looks up from his workbench. There is an element of hard-won retreat from the trials of life in this memoir, but at the same time there is an argument for the essential difficulty of the artist's life. 'Carvers are starvers,' a wizened English carver once told him. Certainly there is no great fortune to be won from a profession as obscure as limewood carving, but the rewards outweigh the hard graft for Esterly.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649191</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alexander McCall Smith
