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Chargement... Islands, the Universe, Home (1991)par Gretel Ehrlich
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I love to read all kinds of books, but books of essays are my favorites. Give me any essay written by Barry Lopez and I'm gone for the evening. I would put Gretel Ehrlich and John McPhee in that same company. All three are grounded by place, but their ideas soar from there. In Ehrlich's case, the place she is grounded in is nearby, in Wyoming. I gave this book to my sister-in-law when she was here for a visit last Easter. She returned it to me while I was on a trip back East to care for my father. Re-reading Ehrlich always provides solace and perspective, something badly needed the past couple of weeks. This is a beautifully written book by a woman passionate about life and her place in it. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Ten essays on nature, ritual, and philosophy "that are so point-blank vital you nearly need to put the book down to settle yourself" (San Francisco Chronicle). Gretel Ehrlich's world is one of solitude and wonder, pain and beauty, and these elements give life to her stunning prose. Ever since her acclaimed debut, The Solace of Open Spaces, she has illuminated the particular qualities of nature and the self with graceful precision. In Islands, the Universe, Home, Ehrlich expands her explorations, traveling to the remote reaches of the earth and deep into her soul. She tells of a voyage of discovery in northern Japan, where she finds her "bridge to heaven." She captures a "light moving down a mountain slope." She sees a ruined city in the face of a fire-scarred mountain. Above all, she recalls what a painter once told her about art when she was twelve years old, as she sat for her portrait: "You have to mix death into everything. Then you have to mix life into that." In this unforgettable collection, Ehrlich mixes life and death, real and sacred, to offer a stunning vision of our world that is both achingly familiar and miraculously strange. According to National Book Award-winning author Andrea Barrett, these essays are "as spare and beautiful as the landscape from which they've grown. . . . Each one is a pilgrimage into the secrets of the heart." Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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