Pieces of the Frame - Rilegato

McPhee, John A.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0374232814 ISBN 13: 9780374232818

Casa editrice: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1975

Riassunto

Collects eleven of the prolific writer's journalistic essays and stories which reflect his continuing interest in and involvement with conservation, Scotland, sports, and their advocates, residents, and participants

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L'autore

John McPhee is the author of more than 25 books, including Annals of the Former World, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction in 1999. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1965 and lives in Princeton, New Jersey. McPhee's Encounters with the Archdruid and The Curve of Binding Energy were both nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science.

Product Description

"Pieces of the Frame" is a gathering of memorable writings by one of the greatest journalists and storytellers of our time. They take the reader from the backwoods roads of Georgia, to the high altitude of Ruidoso Downs in New Mexico; from the social decay of Atlantic City, to Scotland, where a pilgrimage for art's sake leads to a surprising encounter with history on a hilltop with a view of a fifth of the entire country. McPhee's writing is more than informative; these are stories, artful and full of character, that make compelling reading. They play with and against one another, so that "Pieces of the Frame" is distinguished as much by its unity as by its variety. Subjects familiar to McPhee's readers-sports, Scotland, conservation-are treated here with intimacy and a sense of the writer at work.

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• Editore: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Data di pubblicazione: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0374232814
• ISBN 13: 9780374232818
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 320