Seasons: Desert Sketches

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$14.95  $13.90
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Torrey House Press
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Pages
100
Dimensions
5.1 X 0.4 X 7.9 inches | 0.35 pounds
Language
English
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Paperback
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9781948814010
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About the Author
ELLEN MELOY was a native of the West and lived in California, Montana, and Utah. Her book The Anthropology of Turquoise (2002) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won the Utah Book Award and the Banff Mountain Book Festival Award in the adventure and travel category. She is also the author of Raven's Exile: A Season on the Green River (1994), The Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest (2001), and Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild (2005). Meloy spent most of her life in wild, remote places; at the time of her sudden death in November 2004 (three months after completing Eating Stone), she and her husband were living in southern Utah.
Reviews
"Brief essays buoyed by a wonderful conversational ease and puckish sense of humor."
--THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

"Profound, sometimes deceptively breezy...A slim volume, but you shouldn't be fooled. Seasons telescopes decades spent exploring home and the desert, two terms that for Meloy became synonyms."
--HIGH COUNTRY NEWS

"Meloy's nonfiction sparkles, taunts, and ensnares the reader with her incisive humor and stunning depictions of desert landscapes and wildlife."
--15 BYTES

"This cinematically vivid collection feeds both intellect and soul, and shows that Meloy possessed the brevity and vision of a poet, and the coy sass of an understated comedian."
--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

"These essays explore life in the desert lived by a woman who loved it fiercely. A vital collection."
--LIBRARY JOURNAL, starred review

"Ellen Meloy just might be my favorite Utah writer. She's smart and witty. She's laugh-out-loud funny. She's self-deprecatory and never preachy. She always gets her natural history right. And her writing is sufficiently gorgeous for her books to be finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Seasons serves as a fine introduction to the work of this underappreciated writer. Meloy grounds us in her home landscape--our home landscape, where, she realizes, 'I always belonged, but didn't know it.' To earn our place in this red rock desert community, Meloy asks us to 'slow down, pay attention, stay local, go deep.' That's what she does here, and we are privileged to travel with her through the cycles of southern Utah seasons as she searches for 'the core of home.'"
--STEPHEN TRIMBLE, editor of Red Rock Stories: Three Generations of Writers Speak on Behalf of Utah's Public Lands