Magpie Rising: Sketches from the Great Plains - Couverture souple

Gilfillan, Merrill

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0803271077 ISBN 13 : 9780803271074

Editeur : Bison Books, 2003

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bison Books
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0803271077
• ISBN 13: 9780803271074
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 194
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• Personne responsable: non disponible