Field Notes - The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren

Zusatztext “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 Informationen zum Autor Barry Lopez Klappentext 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. Leseprobe TEAL CREEK In the Magdalena Mountains east of Ordell, in country that's been called the Bennett River country since the time of white people, an anchorite (as I would later come to understand the word) settled. His name was James Teal. He drove in when trillium were in full flower, April of 1954, in a green 1946 Dodge and stayed first for several weeks at the Courtyard Motel in Ordell before moving up onto the Bennett. He brought no remarkable possessions. He walked with a slight limp, which my father thought might be from a war wound. He was tall, lean, his face vaguely Asiatic. I remember people noticed right away that he was not an intruder, and was easy to speak to. For a stranger who didn't have a job, or a way of life that fit him anywhere, he drew remarkably little suspicion in Ordell. Days, he was out of town in his car--people saw him walking in and out of the woods at different places; evenings he spent around the motel. He ate supper at Dan and Ruella's cafe or the Vincent Hotel. He didn't go into the bars. He bought groceries, like everyone, at Clyde's on Assiniboine--that's long gone now--and bought rope and pipe and things at Cassidy's Feed, which had a hardware section back then. People like my father who always watched everything just a little said they saw less of him as summer went on. I don't remember, really, seeing much of him myself. I was infatuated with Esther Matthews and I missed a lot then, I suppose. But by the end of summer, August, he was gone. After that, from the winter of ...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Lopez, Barry Lopez, Barry Holstun Lopez
• Verlag: Vintage USA
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 08.06.2004
• EAN: 9781400075126
• ISBN: 978-1-4000-7512-6
• Seiten: 159
• Abmessung: 133 mm x 203 mm x 13 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; Ratgeber > Natur