03027nam 2200637Ia 450 991045197130332120200520144314.01-280-59653-897866136263630-253-00712-7(CKB)2550000000103403(EBL)816875(OCoLC)794663272(SSID)ssj0000655535(PQKBManifestationID)11430172(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000655535(PQKBWorkID)10595878(PQKB)10870963(MiAaPQ)EBC816875(OCoLC)797838202(MdBmJHUP)muse18243(Au-PeEL)EBL816875(CaPaEBR)ebr10565316(CaONFJC)MIL362636(EXLCZ)99255000000010340320110809d2012 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEarth works[electronic resource] selected essays /Scott Russell SandersBloomington Indiana University Pressc20121 online resource (374 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-253-00094-7 0-253-00095-5 Includes bibliographical references.Cover; Contents; Preface; The Singular First Person; At Play in the Paradise of Bombs; The Men We Carry in Our Minds; Doing Time in the Thirteenth Chair; The Inheritance of Tools; Under the Influence; Looking at Women; Reasons of the Body; After the Flood; House and Home; Staying Put; Wayland; Letter to a Reader; Buckeye; The Common Life; Voyageurs; Mountain Music; Wildness; Beauty; Silence; The Force of Spirit; The Uses of Muscle; A Private History of Awe; A Road into Chaos and Old Night; Words Addressed to Our Condition Exactly; Honoring the Ordinary; Speaking for the LandThe Mystique of MoneyBuffalo Eddy; Mind in the Forest; Notes and AcknowledgmentsIn the hands of award-winning writer Scott Russell Sanders, the essay becomes an inquisitive and revelatory form of art. In 30 of his finest essays-nine never before collected-Sanders examines his Midwestern background, his father's drinking, his opposition to war, his literary inheritance, and his feeling for wildness. He also tackles such vital issues as the disruption of Earth's climate, the impact of technology, the mystique of money, the ideology of consumerism, and the meaning of sustainability. Throughout, he asks perennial questions: What is a good life? How do family and culture shEssaysAmerican prose literatureElectronic books.Essays.American prose literature.814.54814/.54Sanders Scott R(Scott Russell),1945-914001MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451971303321Earth works2047752UNINA