Leaving behind a madcap, fishing-obsessed family, Gus embarks on an extraordinary voyage of self-discovery along his beloved Oregon rivers. What he unexpectedly finds is man's wanton destruction of nature and a burning desire to commit himself to its preservation. This is the funny, sensitive, very special story of one man's search for meaning, ...
A coming-of-age story about young Kincaid Chance, who lives with his religious and baseball-mad family in a small Washington mill town in the early 1960s.
In this multiple award-winning and bestselling diagnosis of the contemporary American spirit, David James Duncan suggests that the de facto political party embodied by the so-called "Christian Right" has turned worship into a self-righteous betrayal of the words and example of the very Jesus it claims to praise. In a bracing and often hilarious ...
In these 22 essays, David James Duncan, one of America's most celebrated nature writers and activists, meditates on the many aspects of water conservation, including the havoc wrought by the mining industry. National Book Award nominee, 2001.
This new, illustrated adaptation of the "Song of Songs" renders this literary jewel accessible to a new generation of readers. While retaining much of the beloved phrasing from the King James Bible, Ms. Ernst has made stylistic changes that give the text a fresh and arresting charm. 12 full-color illustrations.
In these 22 essays, David James Duncan, one of America's most celebrated nature writers and activists, meditates on the many aspects of water conservation, including the havoc wrought by the mining industry. National Book Award nominee, 2001.
Inspired by slow-burning anger at the seemingly incurable inhumanity of man, and of his countrymen in particular, Frank Boyden set out to portray, in a series of drypoints, 'man-unkind' at his most hideous. . . . Moved by anger, yet led by the exigencies of an exacting and unforgiving medium, Frank soon forgot the ax he'd set out to grind, lost ...
This touching, uplifting novel spans decades of loyalty, anger, regret, and love in the lives of the Chance family. Here there is a father whose dreams of glory on a baseball field are shattered by a mill accident, a mother who clings obsessively to a religion as a ward against the darkest hour of her past, and four brothers who come of age during ...
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James Laughlin, William Bronk, Robert Edward Duncan, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, David Giannini, Yuki Hartman, Lawson Fusao Inada, Denise Levertov, Enrique Lihn, Richard Meyers, Carl Rakosi
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