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Title: Winter Count by Barry Holstun Lopez ISBN: 0-684-16817-0 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: March, 1981 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $2.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The magic of words
Comment: This book will send you to the dictionary while taking your breath away. Other reviewers have mentioned the phrase, "If one is patient...if you are careful, I think there is probably nothing that cannot be retrieved" from the story, The Orrery. Later in the story, The Location of the River, Lopez recounts the belief that " the history of the earth was revealed anew each spring in the shapes of the towering cumulus clouds that moved over the country from the north and west". Powerful, glorious statements.
The language in this book is so wonderful, I can only let Barry Lopez speak for himself. Two others. From ,The Woman Who Had Shells,"We carry such people with us in an imaginary way,proof against some undefined but irrefutable darkness in the world.".
For the readers, from ,The Lover of Words, "He did not wish to be distracted from...sequence in a life of readings, whereby one book leads by diaphanous but ineluctable threads to the next".
Let the thread of your reading lead you to this book.
Rating: 3
Summary: Winter Count
Comment: The mood in Lopez's collection of short stories leaves one with this lingering feeling...one which I cant quite put my finger on. The mood set in his writing is calm, but the vivid descriptions of his words force vibrant, elaborate pictures to be sketched into the mind...so much so, that, although my body fell into a cozy, drowsy, PEACEFUL serenity as I read, my brain was still trying to cope with the force of colorful images invading it. A truly magnificent writer, one who incorporates the views of those from all around the globe, those of different backgrounds and lifestyles, and snugly wraps their individual stories together to form one great one through nature.
Rating: 5
Summary: For Two Stories...
Comment: It seems an earlier reviewer had the same feelings as I about this book; I would just say - buy it for 'The Woman Who Had Shells' and 'The Orrery'. Both are twists of simple, magical stuff.
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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: 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: Field Notes: Grace Note by Barry H. Lopez ISBN: 0380724820 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 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: OF WOLVES AND MEN by Barry Lopez ISBN: 0684163225 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 01 September, 1979 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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