Magpie Rising: Sketches from the Great Plains - Brossura

Gilfillan, Merrill

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0803271077 ISBN 13: 9780803271074

Casa editrice: Bison Books, 2003

Riassunto

The rolling, billowing, delicate landscape of Nebraska&;s Sandhills; the tombstone of Billy the Kid&;stolen so often that it must be caged and shackled&;in Fort Sumner, New Mexico; an intercontinental ballistic missile trundling down a highway under heavy guard in Weld County, Colorado; cottonwoods and cranes, faded hotels and abandoned trailers painted aqua and purple; the ghosts of Pawnees, Cheyennes, and Kiowas and generations of settlers whose descendants now grouse in a café in Heimdahl, North Dakota, or roar off to a bikers convention in Sturgis, South Dakota. These are some of the things that catch Merrill Gilfillan&;s eye and ear in this radiant collection of essays.

 

Written with a poetic economy that often attains grandeur, Magpie Rising is an exhilarating tour of the Great Plains&;its geography, wildlife, history, mythology, and food, its vast spaces and weirdly synchronous time. This is nature writing at its most evocative and insightful.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Merrill Gilfillan is the author of a collection of essays titled Chokecherry Places: Essays from the High Plains in addition to two books of short stories and seven books of poetry.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Bison Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0803271077
• ISBN 13: 9780803271074
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 194
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile