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Winter Count
- Author
- Barry Lopez
- Narrator
- Christian Baskous
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 12 July 2022
- Run Time
- 2 hours 11 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
From the National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams comes a timeless, intoxicating collection of evocative stories.
A flock of great blue herons descending through a snowstorm to the streets of New York … A river in Nebraska disappearing mysteriously … A ghostly herd of buffalo that sings a song of death … A mystic who raises constellations of stones from the desert floor … All these are to be found in Winter Count, the exquisite and rapturous collection of stories by a multiaward–winning author.
These resonant and unpredictable stories reveal the author’s breathtaking skill in producing painfully beautiful scenes. Combining the real with the wondrous, the stories offer a pure vision of people alive to the immediacy and spiritual truth of nature.
Critics Review
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“Flawless. As painstakingly crafted and as resonant as a good classical guitar.”
New York Times Book Review
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“Richly allusive, moving, compassionate, these stories celebrate the web of nature that holds the world together.”
Philadelphia Inquirer
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“Animals and landscapes have not had this weight, this precision, in American fiction since Hemingway's young heroes were fishing the streams of upper Michigan and Spain.”
San Francisco Chronicle
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“Lopez succeeds in awakening our fleeting yearnings and hidden feelings. This book should be savored for the force of its imagery and the magic of its prose.”
Houston Chronicle
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“Perfectly crafted.”
Los Angeles Times
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“Powerful…[Lopez] can steal your breath away.”
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Details
- Author
- Barry Lopez
- Narrator
- Christian Baskous
- Duration
- 2 hours 11 minutes
- Release Date
- 12 July 2022
- ISBN
- 9798200924707
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Short stories, Narrative theme: Sense of place
Synopsis
From the National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams comes a timeless, intoxicating collection of evocative stories.A flock of great blue herons descending through a snowstorm to the streets of New York … A river in Nebraska disappearing mysteriously … A ghostly herd of buffalo that sings a song of death … A mystic who raises constellations of stones from the desert floor … All these are to be found in Winter Count, the exquisite and rapturous collection of stories by a multiaward–winning author.These resonant and unpredictable stories reveal the author’s breathtaking skill in producing painfully beautiful scenes. Combining the real with the wondrous, the stories offer a pure vision of people alive to the immediacy and spiritual truth of nature.
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