The far corner

Northwestern views on land, life, and literature

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The far corner

Northwestern views on land, life, and literature

"John Daniel writes from the ground he walks and the landscapes he inhabits in the Far Corner of America, spinning narratives that seek to define how he belongs to the land and to the wholeness of life itself. He takes his readers to beaches, old-growth forests, sagebrush steppelands, and deep river canyons - wild places, and places scarred by human uses - and leads us too through inner terrains where he explores mortality, creativity, and spirituality." "Both lyrical and informational, these essays are diverse in focus, various in length, and inventive in form - one is constructed as a journal, two as linear montages. By turns playful, awed, cantankerous, and tender in tone, they deliver themselves in a style of high informality, welcoming readers to join the author as he journeys through some of the puzzlements and sadnesses and small glories of living."--BOOK JACKET.

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Language
English
Pages
205

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The far corner: Northwestern views on land, life, and literature
2008, Counterpoint, Distributed by Publishers Group West
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Table of Contents

Part I: Cuttings
Wavewash
A word in favor of rootlessness
In praise of darkness
Part II: Oregon rivers : a suite in six parts
Part III: The prankster-in-chief moves on
Wallace Stegner's hunger for wholeness
"Creative nonfiction" and the nation of narrative prose
Part IV: The river
Solitude in a dry season
The mother of beauty
A word in favor of rootedness.

Edition Notes

Published in
Berkeley, CA

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
979.5/044
Library of Congress
F852.3 .D36 2008, F852.3.D36 2008, F852.3 .D36 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
205

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22691146M
Internet Archive
farcornernorthwe00dani
ISBN 10
158243493X
ISBN 13
9781582434933
LCCN
2008048764
OCLC/WorldCat
251194802
Library Thing
9116328
Goodreads
5669112

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