Volume 36, Number 2 · February 16, 1989
Queen Bee
By Eleanor Perenyi
A Book of Bees…and How to Keep Them
by Sue Hubbell
Random House, 193 pp., $17.95
A Country Year: Living the Questions
by Sue Hubbell
Harper and Row, 221 pp., $7.95 (paper)
Sue Hubbell is an escaped intellectual, exlibrarian, ex-wife, a woman who didn't discover her true vocation until, on the threshold of middle age, she moved to the Missouri Ozarks and took up beekeeping. At first no more than a way to earn a rather precarious living in a country she had loved at sight, this 'unruly, benign kind of agriculture' quickly became an occupation 'with such a wild, anarchistic, raffish appeal that it unsuits me for any other, except possibly robbing banks.'
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