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"Writing with her signature precision, candor and gift for archetypal drama, Proulx chronicles extreme construction debacles, epic snowstorms and magnificent wildlife. She also offers glimpses into her writing life... With a scientist's exactitude, an artist's attunement to beauty and a storyteller's enchantment, Proulx takes us through the building of a home, intimacy with place and reclamation of the past" --P. 4 of Cover.
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"H Is for Hawk meets Joan Didion in the Pyrocene in this arresting combination of memoir, natural history, and literary inquiry that chronicles one woman's experience of life in Northern California during the worst fire season on record. Told in luminous,perceptive prose, The Last Fire Season is a deeply incisive inquiry into what it really means-now-to live in relationship to the elements of the natural world. When Manjula Martin moved from the city...
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""Any story that starts will also end." As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart. At the center of These Precious Days is the title essay, a surprising and moving meditation on an unexpected friendship that explores "what it means to be seen, to find someone...
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