Field Notes: The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren

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Longing, beauty, relationships, nature in crystalline prose.

If you're someone who appreciates the nuance and beauty in the interactions between humans and the environment, Barry Lopez's "Field Notes: The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren" could resonate deeply with you. Lopez's talent for simple yet profound storytelling reveals the complex layers of our quest for connection. This book could offer you both a moment of reflection and a renewed sense of wonder towards the world and our place in it.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Field Notes: The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren

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ISBN: 9781400075126
Authors: Barry Lopez
Date of Publication: 2004-06-08
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction
Goodreads rating: 4.05
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In this collection of twelve stories, Barry Lopez—the National Book Award–winning author of Arctic Dreams and 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. An anthropologist traveling with an aboriginal people finds that, because of his aggressive desire to understand them, they remain always disturbingly unknowable. A successful financial consultant, failing to discover his roots in Africa, jogs from Connecticut to the Pacific Ocean in order to forge an indigenous connection to the American landscape. A paleontologist is haunted by visions of wildlife in a vacant lot in Manhattan. In simple, crystalline prose, Lopez evokes a sense of the magic and marvelous strangeness of the world, and a deep compassion for the human predicament.
 

Longing, beauty, relationships, nature in crystalline prose.

If you're someone who appreciates the nuance and beauty in the interactions between humans and the environment, Barry Lopez's "Field Notes: The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren" could resonate deeply with you. Lopez's talent for simple yet profound storytelling reveals the complex layers of our quest for connection. This book could offer you both a moment of reflection and a renewed sense of wonder towards the world and our place in it.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.