Animals Strike Curious Poses (eBook)

Elena Passarello (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
200 Seiten
Sarabande Books (Verlag)
978-1-941411-40-7 (ISBN)

Infos

';It might be the best book on animals I've ever read. Its also the only one thats made me laugh out loud.' Helen Macdonald, The New York Times Book Review Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000-year-old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in the Siberian permafrost, each of the sixteen essays in Animals Strike Curious Poses investigates a different famous animal named and immortalized by humans. Modeled loosely after a medieval bestiary, these witty, playful, whip-smart essays, from a winner of a Whiting Award for nonfiction, traverse history, myth, science, and more, bringing each beast vibrantly to life. ';Stunning... Passarello's keen wit is on display throughout as she raises questions about the uniqueness of humans.... A feast of surprising juxtapositions and gorgeous prose.' Publishers Weekly (starred review) ';I've spent decades reading books on the roles animals play in human cultures, but none have ever made me think, and feel, as much as this one. It's a devastating meditation on our relationship to the natural world.' Helen Macdonald, The New York Times Book Review

Autor

Elena Passarello is an actor, a writer, and recipient of a 2015 Whiting Award. Her first collection with Sarabande Books, Let Me Clear My Throat, won the gold medal for nonfiction at the 2013 Independent Publisher Awards and was a finalist for the 2014 Oregon Book Award. Her essays on performance, pop culture, and the natural world have been published in Oxford American, Slate, Creative Nonfiction, and The Iowa Review, among other publications, as well as in the 2015 anthologies Cat is Art Spelled Wrong and After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essay. Passarello lives in Corvallis, Oregon and teaches at Oregon State University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.2.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: animal myths • animal nonfiction • animal rights • Bestiaries • Bestiary • Biology • creature world • Cultural • Culture • Essay collections • essays about animals • Humans and Animals • literary essays • Literary Nonfiction • Natural History • Pets • prehistoric animals • relationships • species • the arcane • wildlife • Zoology
• ISBN-10: 1-941411-40-1 / 1941411401
• ISBN-13: 978-1-941411-40-7 / 9781941411407