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Description
Populated by an oddball cast of characters, this book chronicles one man's determined effort--occasionally with hilarious results--to follow the stream that runs by his house to its elusive source.
Product Details
Publisher | Down East Books |
Publish Date | December 01, 2014 |
Pages | 300 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9781608933938 |
Dimensions | 8.5 X 5.6 X 0.8 inches | 0.8 pounds |
About the Author
Bill Roorbach is the author of the O.Henry Award-winning story collection Big Bend, as well of the novels The Smallest Color and Life Among Giants, now in development for an HBO series. He also wrote the memoir, Summers with Juliet and the essay collection Into Woods. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including the Atlantic, Harper's Monthly, Granta, and the New York Times Magazine. He lives with his family in Farmington, Maine.
Reviews
A celebration of life...deft and evocative, making small adventures loom large.
Bill Roorbach is a brilliant guide to the natural world. Gracefully combining deep knowledge, lyrical description and wry humor, his writing draws you out of your chair and into a world of streams and meadows and trees and bugs and beavers. And it makes you want to stay there.
There are other autobiographical books about Maine, but Roorbach's writing is so compelling, his eye for the human condition so keen, that this is in a class of its own.
There is poetry in Bill Roorbach's prose...his lyricism touched lightly with irony.
While genuine in his appreciation of Nature, Roorbach is the antithesis of the smug and self-absorbed Naturalist...Temple Stream is a moving book: thoughtful, precise, about much more than flora.
With a voice as pure and true as the stream itself, Roorbach limns a lyrical yet precise portrait of the life teeming along one deceptively simple yet richly essential part of the natural world.
You'll be homesick for a place you've never visited.
Bill Roorbach is a brilliant guide to the natural world. Gracefully combining deep knowledge, lyrical description and wry humor, his writing draws you out of your chair and into a world of streams and meadows and trees and bugs and beavers. And it makes you want to stay there.
There are other autobiographical books about Maine, but Roorbach's writing is so compelling, his eye for the human condition so keen, that this is in a class of its own.
There is poetry in Bill Roorbach's prose...his lyricism touched lightly with irony.
While genuine in his appreciation of Nature, Roorbach is the antithesis of the smug and self-absorbed Naturalist...Temple Stream is a moving book: thoughtful, precise, about much more than flora.
With a voice as pure and true as the stream itself, Roorbach limns a lyrical yet precise portrait of the life teeming along one deceptively simple yet richly essential part of the natural world.
You'll be homesick for a place you've never visited.
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