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  • National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Criticism (2001)
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Ill Nature - Rants And Reflections On Humanity And Other Animals

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ISBN: 9780375713637
Estimated First-hand Retail Price: $29.18
Authors: Joy Williams
Publisher: Vintage
Date of Publication: 2002-06-11
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Science, Creative Nonfiction, Nature
Related Topics: Nature, Essays, Environment, Ecology
Goodreads rating: 4.16
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Most of us watch with mild concern the fast-disappearing wild spaces or the recurrence of pollution-related crises such as oil spills, toxic blooms in fertilizer-enriched forests, and violence both home and abroad. Joy Williams does more than watch. In this collection of condemnations and love letters, revelations and cries for help, she brings to light the price of complacency with scathing wit and unexpected humor. Sounding the alarm over the disconnection from the natural world that our consumer culture has created, she takes on subjects as varied as the culling of elephants, electron-probed chimpanzees, vanishing wetlands, and the determination of American women to reproduce at any cost. Controversial, opinionated, at times exceptionally moving, Ill Nature is a clarion call for us to step out of our cars and cubicles, and do something to save our natural legacy.
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