Research Catalog

Field notes : the grace note of the canyon wren

Filter by

Item details
Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Request in advance	PS3562.O67 F54 1994	Off-site

Description: 159 pages; 20 cm
Summary: In this new collection of twelve stories, one of our most admired writers evokes the longing we feel for beauty in our relationships with one another, with the past, with nature, In these stories, we find men or women - sometimes at odds with themselves, sometimes transcendently well grounded - who have an experience that is profound, unsettling, and oddly liberating. In "Empira's Tapestry," a gravely ill woman begins to weave a luminous cloth in which is expressed all of the fervent desire she had for her life...In "Homecoming," a botanist has become so caught up with his academic ambitions that he forgets the names of the wildflowers in his own woods until his young daughter reteaches him...And in "The Entreaty of the Wiideema," an anthropologist traveling with an aboriginal people finds that, because of his aggressive desire to understand them, they remain for him always disturbingly unknowable.
Genre/Form: Short stories.
Contents: Introduction: Within birds' hearing -- Teal Creek -- Empira's tapestry -- The open lot -- Conversation -- Pearyland -- The Negro in the kitchen -- The entreaty of the Wiideema -- Homecoming -- Sonora -- Lessons from the wolverine -- The runner.
ISBN: 0679434534 :
LCCN: 94002144
OCLC: ocm29754729
Owning Institutions: Columbia University Libraries