Field Notes: The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren - Hardcover

Lopez, Barry Holstun

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679434534 ISBN 13: 9780679434535

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1994

Synopsis

Twelve stories include those of a dying woman who finds self-expression, a botanist who must learn a lesson from his young daughter, and an anthopologist whose efforts to understand an aboriginal people seem to create a barrier to understanding them

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About the Author

Barry Lopez won the 1986 National Book Award in nonfiction for Arctic Dreams. His short stories, which have received a Pushcart Prize and a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. appear regularly in The Paris Review, American Short Fiction. The North American Review Manoa, and elsewhere. His other books include Of Wolves and Men, Winter Count, Crossing Open Ground, and Crow and Weasel.

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collection of twelve stories, one of our most admired writers evokes the longing we feel for beauty in our relationships with one another, with the past. with nature. In these stories, we find men or women -- sometimes at odds with themselves, sometimes transcendently well grounded -- who have an experience that is profound, unsettling, and oddly liberating. 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 ... And in "The Entreaty of the Wiideema," an anthropologist traveling with an aboriginal people finds that, because of his aggressive desire to understand them, they remain for him always disturbingly unknowable.<br><br>These spare, haunting fictions, building cumulatively on each othe

Edition details

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679434534
• ISBN 13: 9780679434535
• Binding: Hardcover