Field Notes: The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren
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- Synopsis
- In this new collection of 12 stories, one of our most admired writers evokes the longing we feel for beauty in our relationships with one another, with the past and with nature. In these stories, we find men or women -- sometimes at odds with themselves, sometimes transcendentally well grounded -- who have an experience that is profound, unsettling, and oddly liberating. These spare, haunting fictions, building cumulatively on each other, are marked by those qualities we have found in all of Barry Lopez's writing: a sense of the magic and marvelous strangeness of the world, respect for disparate ways of knowing and being, compassion for the human predicament, and a vibrant hope that comes from being alert and attentive to the complex beauties of landscape. In "Empira's Tapestry." a gravely ill woman begins to weave a luminous cloth in which is expressed all of the fervent desire she had for her life ... In "Homecoming," a botanist has become so caught up with his academic ambitions that he forgets the names of the wildflowers in his own woods until his young daughter re-teaches him ... Field Votes is the final book of a loosely connected trilogy that includes Desert Notes (1976) and River Notes (1979) and stands with the best of Barry Lopez's remarkably varied work.
- Copyright:
- 1994
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 162 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780679434535
- Publisher:
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Date of Addition:
- 07/27/09
- Copyrighted By:
- Barry Holstun Lopez
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Daproim Africa
- Proofread By:
- Daproim Africa
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.