| Dancing on the Stones Contributor(s): Nichols, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0826321836 ISBN-13: 9780826321831 Publisher: University of New Mexico Press OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2001 Annotation: If youve read any of John Nicholss novels or books of nonfiction, youve met a lively, funny, and very impassioned man. This new collection of essays gives you the opportunity to know him even more intimately. Taoseno, fisherman, father, author, spokesman for all underdogs, Nichols has gathered writings that span more than thirty years and range from idyllic reflections on nature to unmerciful satires on impending Armageddon. We see the author as a young man on the trip to Central America that gave him a social conscience that wouldnt quit; as a hunter, hiker, and naturalist on rivers and in mountains increasingly threatened by development; and as a novelist watching in embarrassed disbelief as his book "The Milagro Beanfield War" is made into a movie that succeeds in spite of Hollywoods best efforts to garble the outcome. The vitality that made Nichols a standout prep-school mischief maker and college hockey player lends irresistible high spirits even to essays about departed friends and mortal illnesssubjects that are treated with compassion, bawdy irreverence, thoughtful philosophizing, and the authors intense love of life. Nichols can find a miraculous universe in a tiny stock pond, turn a rafting trip into a Keystone Kops misadventure, advocate revolution at a moments notice, and laugh with beguiling aplomb at his own awkward pomposity. Almost everything this long-time New Mexican has to say is at once deadly serious and bright with untrammeled joy and curiosity. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: 814.54 |
| LCCN: 99006983 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.74" W x 8.97" (0.72 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: If you've read any of John Nichols's novels or books of nonfiction, you've met a lively, funny, and very impassioned man. This new collection of essays gives you the opportunity to know him even more intimately. Taose o, fisherman, father, author, spokesman for all underdogs, Nichols has gathered writings that span more than thirty years and range from idyllic reflections on nature to unmerciful satires on impending Armageddon.--from the jacket, Dancing on the Stones |
Contributor Bio(s): Nichols, John: - John Nichols is the author of numerous books. He lives in Taos, New Mexico. |