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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Review:

"Haunting . . . superb . . . exquisitely wrought . . . . Lopez is indeed a writer of many dimensions." --San Francisco Chronicle

"Haunting . . . mysterious. . . . These spare narrations carry surprising weight. . . . Lopez leaves all the right things unsaid, and the silence resonates." --Time

"The purity and power of Mr. Lopez's imagery combine to give the reader a sure, steady footing." --The New York Times Review of Books

"Enchanting . . . challenging . . . rewarding . . . a rich, subtly moving collection. . . . [Lopez's] sublime stories limn the soul of nature and the soul of humanity with equal skill, conviction and reverence." --The Plain Dealer

"Each of the dozen stories . . . surrounds and encloses elements transformed, like a geode. Protected inside are fables of grace and faith, like lovely quartz crystals or beautiful bands of agate." --The Boston Globe

"Lopez succeeds in awakening our fleeting yearning and hidden feelings." -The Denver Post

"Lopez has such great narrative skill and uses his words so carefully the simple intensity is often nearly overwhelming." -The Oregonian

"[Lopez's] stories' fierce beauty lingers in the mind's eye like a foreign sunset." -The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"Lopez displays his skill for description in writing that's precise, gorgeous, [and] arresting." -Rocky Mountain News

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.

About this edition

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