A Slender Thread : Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis

Ackerman, Diane

ISBN 10: 0679448772 / ISBN 13: 9780679448778

Editore: Random House, 1996

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Riassunto:

Diane Ackermann volunteers every week at a local crisis center, where people call in anonymously, strung out, desperate, imploring, or hostile, holding on to hope through a phone line. Her secret life spent with callers is shocking, funny, stressful, healing, and inspiring. So, too, is her life in her backyard where the wild creatures she observes so closely are living their own lives on the edge. In her distinctive style she weaves these parallel threads into a book that is an astonishment. Using powerful stories of the human spirit set against a backdrop of the natural world she knows so well, Ackerman takes us with her on her travels between those intensely fascinating realms.

Dalla quarta di copertina: ing book by the prizewinning, bestselling author of A Natural History of the Senses reveals Ackerman's parallel lives as an observer of the wildlife in her garden and as a telephone crisis counselor. "(Ackerman) brings a luminous and illuminating combination of sensuality, science, and speculation to whatever she considers."--San Francisco Examiner.

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Titolo: A Slender Thread : Rediscovering Hope at the...
Casa editrice: Random House
Data di pubblicazione: 1996
Legatura: hardcover
Condizione: Good