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Title: Field Notes: Grace Note by Barry H. Lopez ISBN: 0-380-72482-0 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Grace notes.
Comment: Barry Lopez's short stories are challenging in their simplicity. They are also challenging to describe to anyone who has never read any Lopez. Deceptively sparse, they are at the same time heavy with meaning, and rich with imagery from the natural world. This twelve-story collection opens with "the burbling call" (p. 10) of a cactus wren resonating through "the stony, cactus-strewn land" (p. 4) of desert arroyos, and ends with a run down the "really old trails, the Anasazi trails" (p. 154) of the Grand Canyon. In "Teal Creek," Lopez's narrator curiously witnesses a hermit living beside a creek in "complete stillness, a silence such as I had never heard out of another living thing, an unbbroken grace" (p. 22). In another story, a paleontologist discovers "phantoms" (p. 41), a black bear, a herd of deer, and a "tawny panther hunkered in the tawny grass" (p. 47) in an empty, city lot. I was even surprised to find a reference to my small hometown, Bisbee, Arizona in this collection.
Although some are stronger than others, each of these stories offers its protagonist a sacred encounter with the natural world we too often ignore. Each story has its own unique grace note that will leave you with a sense of wonder.
G. Merritt
Rating: 5
Summary: Rich in images and introspection
Comment: Barry Lopez brings a unique voice to his work that is rich in observation of surroundings and living forms as well as a deeply sacred intellectual perspective. Each story in this book brings Lopez' voice to the ear of the reader as a deep intimation of experience. A writer who gives the reader a feeling of desire to listen to the storyteller as if he were speaking to you in the tradition of storytellers has transcended the special bridge from oral discourse or history to the written word. It makes me want to read all of Lopez books of which I now have four.
Rating: 4
Summary: Environmentalism through story
Comment: In this book Barry Lopez uses a novel approach to many of his stories: the short story written in the form if nature essays. Other nature writers--Edward Abbey, for example--have been known to take liberties with the exact details of the stories they tell, but Lopez actually creates new worlds in this collection of short fiction pieces. At his best, in stories such as "Teal Creek" and "Sonora," Lopez lets the story itself convey whatever larger purposes he might have. In his less successful pieces ("Conversation"), he beats the reader over the head with political psychobabble, almost to the point of sounding like propaganda. However, his ability to tell a story is undeniable, and it would be hard to argue with his place-based approach to environmentalism. And Lopez himself would be the first to say that it is the story itself, and not the moral of the story, that mattters.
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Title: Crossing Open Ground by Barry Lopez ISBN: 0679721835 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 14 May, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: About This Life : Journeys on the Threshold of Memory by Barry Lopez ISBN: 0679754474 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 27 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Rediscovery of North America by Barry Lopez ISBN: 0679740996 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 01 September, 1992 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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Title: Winter Count by Barry Lopez ISBN: 0679781412 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 02 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Desert Notes: Reflection by Barry H. Lopez ISBN: 0380711109 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 September, 1990 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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