Ebook {Epub PDF} About This Life by Barry Lopez

 · In the introduction to his essay anthology, About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory, Barry Lopez describes becoming a writer and finding his voice. He writes of the universality of story in all cultures, a binding theme in this collection: “Stories do not give instruction, they do not explain how to love a companion or how to find www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 7 mins. Barry Lopez reminds one a bit of Oliver Sacks in terms of his ability to draw global conclusions about the human experience from the subjects of his investigation. And like the better non-fiction writers today, he brings the story-telling skill of a fine novelist to the art of narrative www.doorway.ru by:  · About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory by Barry Lopez published: format: page Paperback acquired: from Downtown Books News in Asheville, NC, in read: Aug rating: 3½ A collection of essays with a nature-writer's tone. I had to work through a few things before I could begin to understand where he was going/5.

About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory Barry Holstun Lopez, Author Alfred A. Knopf $24 (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. Buy a cheap copy of About This Life: Journeys on the book by Barry Lopez. The acclaimed National Book Award winner gives us a collection of spellbinding essays that, read together, form a jigsaw-puzzle portrait of an extraordinary man. Free Shipping on all orders over $ About This Life. Journeys on the Threshold of Memory. By: Barry Lopez. Narrated by: Barry Lopez. Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins. Abridged Audiobook. Categories: Biographies Memoirs, Professionals Academics. out of 5 stars. (50 ratings).

Barry Lopez, a National Book Award winner, looks at the world with an exquisite reverence that enables him to feel a kinship with all living creatures. This spiritual sensitivity shines through all the essays in About This Life. Lopez performs rituals for animals killed on the highway. A man asks, why bother? "You never know, I said. Barry Lopez is the author of three collections of essays, including Horizon; several story collections; Arctic Dreams, for which he received the National Book Award; Of Wolves and Men, a National Book Award finalist; and Crow and Weasel, a novella-length fable. He contributed regularly to both American and foreign journals and traveled to more than seventy countries to conduct research. About This Life. Barry Lopez is a wanderer. He is also a quiet, meditative man who values solitude and expresses awe and reverence for the natural world. His solitude is never empty. It is full of the flux of energy: cloud patterns; the fall of light; the movement of an animal in a snowy waste. And Lopez is acutely observant, too, of the relationship between people and the land they inhabit, and of the effects of change on these relationships.