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9781501353352: Bird
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ISBN 10 : 1501353357 ISBN 13 : 9781501353352
Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

Synopsis

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Hope, as Emily Dickinson famously wrote, is the thing with feathers. Erik Anderson, on the other hand, regards our obsession with birds as too sentimental, too precious. Birds don't express hope. They express themselves. But this tension between the versions of nature that lodge in our minds and the realities that surround us is the central theme of Bird.

This is no field guide. It's something far more unusual and idiosyncratic, balancing science with story, anatomy with metaphor, habitat with history. Anderson illuminates the dark underbelly of our bird fetish and offers a fresh, alternative vision of one of nature's most beloved objects.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

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À propos de l'auteur

Erik Anderson is the author of three previous books of nonfiction: The Poetics of Trespass (2010), Estranger (2016), and Flutter Point: Essays (2017), selected by Amy Fusselman for the 2015 Zone 3 Nonfiction Book Prize. He teaches creative writing at Franklin & Marshall College, USA, and lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

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Éditeur
Bloomsbury Academic
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1501353357
ISBN 13 
9781501353352
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
176
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
WordUnited GmbH
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