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Things that are : essays /

The debut collection of a writer whose accolades precede her: a Whiting Award, a Rona Jaffe Award, a Best American Essays selection, and a Pushcart Prize, all received before her first book-length publication. This book represents a major break-out of an entirely new brand of nonfiction writer, in a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Leach, Amy, 1975-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Milkweed Editions, 2012.
Subjects:
Natural history literature.
Natural history.
Science > History.
Science.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:The debut collection of a writer whose accolades precede her: a Whiting Award, a Rona Jaffe Award, a Best American Essays selection, and a Pushcart Prize, all received before her first book-length publication. This book represents a major break-out of an entirely new brand of nonfiction writer, in a mode like that of Ander Monson, John D'Agata, and Eula Biss, but a new sort of beast entirely its own. Things That Are takes jellyfish, fainting goats, and imperturbable caterpillars as just a few of its many inspirations. In a series of essays that progress from the tiniest earth dwellers to the mo.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 185 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Donkey Derby -- I. THINGS OF EARTH -- Trappists -- In Which the River Makes Off with Three Stationary Characters -- Goats and Bygone Goats -- Talent -- Warbler Delight -- Pea Madness -- Radical Bears in the Forest Delicious -- Trooping with Trouble -- Silly Lilies -- The Wine of Astonishment -- When Trees Dream of Being Trees -- Love -- Please Do Not Yell at the Sea Cucumber -- You Are Going to Fly -- God -- MEMORANDUM TO THE ANIMALS -- II. THINGS OF HEAVEN -- The Same Old Joy -- The Safari -- Stairs -- Sail On, My Little Honeybee -- Twinkle Twinkle -- The Wild What -- Comfortless -- THE ORACLE -- Afterword -- The Round-Earth Affair -- Glossary Of Strange Beasts And Phenomena.
ISBN:9781571318640 (electronic)
157131864X (electronic)