Sound of a Wild Snail Eating - Brossura

Tova Bailey, Elisabeth

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ISBN 10: 161620642X ISBN 13: 9781616206420

Casa editrice: Algonquin Books, 2016

Riassunto

Bedridden and suffering from a neurological disorder, the author recounts the profound effect on her life caused by a gift of a snail in a potted plant and shares the lessons learned from her new companion about her the meaning of her life and the life of the small creature.

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THE EARTHLY ADVENTURES OF A WOMAN AND A GASTROPOD
 
Winner of the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing
Winner of the John Burroughs Medal
Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award in Natural History Literature
 
“Brilliant.” —The New York Review of Books
 
“How interesting can a snail be? Entirely captivating, as it turns out. [Bailey] is a marvelous writer, and the marriage of science and poetic mysticism that characterizes this small volume is magical.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune
 
“[A] gem.” —Susan Stamberg, NPR’s Morning Edition
 
“Survival, resilience, and intellectual curiosity . . . Deeply moving. . . Extraordinary.” —Literature and Medicine, the journal of the Institute for the Medical Humanities
 
“An exquisite meditation on the restorative connection between nature and humans . . . As richly layered as the soil she lays down in the snail’s terrarium: loamy, potent, and regenerative.” —The Huffington Post 
 
“[A] small, quiet masterpiece, already destined to become a classic.” —The Washington Times
 
 

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Algonquin Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 161620642X
• ISBN 13: 9781616206420
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero di pagine: 208