Irons in the Fire - Rilegato

McPhee, John

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ISBN 10: 0374177260 ISBN 13: 9780374177263

Casa editrice: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1997

Riassunto

A collection of original stories and essays by a critically lauded writer contains tales of cattle rustling in Nevada, a virgin forest in central New Jersey, forensic geology used to solve murders, and a repair at Plymouth Rock.

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L'autore:

John McPhee is the author of twenty-six books, including Annals of the Former World, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize in 1999. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1965 and lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began atTime magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. Also in 1965, he published his first book,A Sense of Where You Are, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has written nearly 30 books, includingOranges (1967), Coming into the Country (1977), The Control of Nature (1989),The Founding Fish (2002), Uncommon Carriers (2007), and Silk Parachute (2011).Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) and The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science. McPhee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977. In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

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• Editore: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0374177260
• ISBN 13: 9780374177263
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 215