Field Notes: The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren
Review These are twelve works of fiction but the environmental themes surrounding them make them especially accessible to those interested in natural history and the environment. Fables of faith and grace are woven into an enchanting set of stories of nature and survival. -- Midwest Book Review Product Description A scientist sees wild animals in empty urban spaces . . . A gravely ill woman weaves her desires into luminous cloth . . . An anthropologist seeks redemption in the bush, but is thwarted by an aboriginal people's indifference to natural violence. In twelve transcendent and affecting short fictions, National Book Award-winning author Barry Lopez demonstrates once again his respect for disparate ways of knowing and being, and his sense of the magic and marvelous strangeness of the real world. From Publishers Weekly Final book in NBA winner Lopez's trilogy of short stories (Desert Notes; River Notes), exploring the sometimes magical interaction between people and the natural world. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.