Seasons by Ellen Meloy
"Sharp as the needles on a pinyon pine, these essays will make you rethink your view of the American West. Meloy's wise and unexpected observations are a pure delight."--MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE
Ellen Meloy wrote and recorded a series of audio essays for KUER, NPR Utah in the 1990s. Every few months, she would travel to their Salt Lake City studios from her red rock home of Bluff to read an essay or two. With understated humor and sharp insight, Meloy would illuminate facets of human connection to nature and challenge listeners to examine the world anew. Seasons: Desert Sketches is a compilation of these essays, transcribed from their original cassette tape recordings. Whether Meloy is pondering geese in Desolation Canyon or people at the local post office, readers will delight in her signature wit and charm--and feel the pull of the desert she loves and defends.
ELLEN MELOY was a native of the West who resided in California, Montana, and Utah before receiving a Whiting Foundation Award in 1997. Her earlier book, The Anthropology of Turquoise, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in the adventure and travel category and earned the Utah Book Award and the Banff Mountain Book Festival Award. Raven's Exile: A Season on the Green River and The Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest are two of her other works. Meloy spent the majority of her life in wild, distant locations; she and her husband were living in southern Utah at the time of her untimely death in November 2004 (three months after finishing Eating Stone).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781948814010 |
| ISBN 10 | 1948814013 |
| Title | Seasons |
| Author | Ellen Meloy |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Torrey House Press |
| Year published | 2019-04-16 |
| Number of pages | 100 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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