{"product_id":"books-winter-count-by-barry-lopez","title":"Winter Count","description":"Perfectly crafted. . . . [These] stories expand of their own accord, lingering in the mind the way intense light lingers in the retina. --Los Angeles Times \u003cbr\u003eAnimals 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 \u003cp\u003eAflock of great blue herons descending through a snowstorm to the streets of New York. . . . A river in Nebraska disappearing mysteri-ously. . . . 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 by the National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these resonant and unpredictable stories Barry Lopez proves that he is one of the most important and original writers at work in America today. With breathtaking skill and a few deft strokes he produces painfully beautiful scenes. Combining the real with the wondrous, he offers us a pure vision of people alive to the immediacy and spiritual truth of nature. \u003cbr\u003ePowerful. . . . [Lopez] can steal your breath away. --Minneapolis Tribune \u003cbr\u003eRichly allusive, moving, compassionate, these stories celebrate the web of nature that holds the world together. \u003cbr\u003e--The Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53674645225745,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780679781417.jpg?v=1781534797","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-winter-count-by-barry-lopez","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}