| Writing from the Center Contributor(s): Sanders, Scott Russell (Author) |
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ISBN: 0253211433 ISBN-13: 9780253211439 Publisher: Indiana University Press OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1997 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: 818.54 |
| LCCN: 95007146 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.8" W x 8.5" (0.60 lbs) 216 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: . . . essays of substance and beauty, and they belong beside the work of Annie Dillard, Samuel Pickering, and Wendell Berry. --Library Journal [Sanders] eloquently expresses his love of the land and the responsibility he feels for preventing further erosion of our natural resources . . . --Publishers Weekly Skillfully written in a clear, unmannered style refreshingly devoid of irony and hollow cleverness, the author starts with everyday experiences and gleans from them larger truths. --The Christian Science Monitor [These] essays are so good one is tempted to stand up and applaud after reading them. . . . Sanders is a modern day prospector who finds gems of spiritual meaning in both familiar and unusual places. --Body Mind Spirit Writing from the Center is about one very fine writer's quest for a meaningful and moral life. Lannan Literary Award winner Scott Sanders (Secrets of the Universe, Staying Put, A Paradise of Bombs) seeks and describes a center that is geographical, emotional, artistic, and spiritual--and is rooted in place. The geography is midwestern, the impulses are universal. The earth needs fewer tourists and more inhabitants, it seems to me--fewer people who float about in bubbles of money and more people committed to knowing and tending their home ground. --Scott Russell Sanders, from the book |