The Book of Unconformities
Speculations on Lost Time
From the author of the acclaimed Insectopedia, a powerful exploration of loss, endurance, and the absences that permeate the present When Hugh Raffles's two sisters died suddenly within a few weeks of each other, he reached for rocks, stones, and other seemingly solid objects as anchors in a world unmoored, as ways to make sense of these events through stories far larger than his own. A moving, profound, and affirming meditation, The Book of Unconformities is grounded in stories of stones: Neolithic stone circles, Icelandic lava, mica from a Nazi concentration camp, petrified whale blubber in Svalbard, the marble prized by Manhattan's Len…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8041-9799-1
- EAN: 9780804197991
- Produktnummer: 33114580
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 400 S.
- Masse: H24.2 cm x B16.2 cm x D3.5 cm 732 g
- Gewicht: 732
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HUGH RAFFLES is the author of Insectopedia, which was a New York Times Notable Book and received the Orion Book Award and the Ludwik Fleck Prize of the Society for Social Studies of Science, and of In Amazonia: A Natural History which received the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing. His essays have appeared in Best American Essays, Granta, Orion, and The New York Times, and he is the recipientof the Whiting Award for nonfiction. He lives in New York City and is professor of anthropology at The New School.
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