Refuge

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Women's Studies/Nature
"Moving and loving . . . both a natural history of an ecological phenomenon, along with a Mormon family saga a heroic book." - Washington Post Book World
Km In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest f^ I I Williams learned that her mother was It ¦ dying of cancer. That same spring,
Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and with it the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by. One event was nature at its most random, the other a by-product of rogue technology: Terry's mother, and Terry herself, had been exposed to the fallout of atomic bomb tests in the 1950s. As it interweaves these narratives of dying and accommodation, Refuge transforms tragedy into a document of renewal and spiritual grace, resulting in a work that seems certain to become a classic in the literatures of women, nature and grieving.
"Profoundly moving . . . brilliantly... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Women's Studies/Nature
"Moving and loving . . . both a natural history of an ecological phenomenon, along with a Mormon family saga a heroic book." - Washington Post Book World
Km In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest f^ I I Williams learned that her mother was It ¦ dying of cancer. That same spring,
Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and with it the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by. One event was nature at its most random, the other a by-product of rogue technology: Terry's mother, and Terry herself, had been exposed to the fallout of atomic bomb tests in the 1950s. As it interweaves these narratives of dying and accommodation, Refuge transforms tragedy into a document of renewal and spiritual grace, resulting in a work that seems certain to become a classic in the literatures of women, nature and grieving.
"Profoundly moving . . . brilliantly conceived . . . one of the most significant environmental essays of our time."- Kansas City Star
"A record of loss, healing grace, and the search for a human place in nature's large design. Terry Tempest Williams's courage is matched by the earnest beauty of her language and the keen compassion of her observations." - Louise Erdrich
"One of the West's most striking new writers." - Newsweek Vissza