Bibliograph

The nature book, [compiled by] Tom Comitta

Type

Label

The nature book, [compiled by] Tom Comitta

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The nature book

Oclc number

1315537661

Responsibility statement

[compiled by] Tom Comitta

Summary

"Part sweeping evocation of Earth's rhythms, part literary archive, part post-human novel, The Nature Book collages descriptions of the natural world into a singular symphonic paean to the planet. What does our nature writing say about us, and more urgently, what would it say without us? Tom Comitta investigates these questions and more in The Nature Book, a "literary supercut" that arranges writing about the natural world from three hundred works of fiction into a provocative re-envisioning of the novel. With fiction's traditional background of flora and fauna brought to the fore, people and their structures disappear, giving center stage to animals, landforms, and weather patterns--honored in their own right rather than for their ambient role in human drama. The Nature Book challenges the confines of anthropocentrism with sublime artistic vision, traversing mountains, forests, oceans, and space to shift our attention toward the magnificently complex and interconnected world around us." -- Publisher's description

Table Of Contents

Preface -- The four seasons -- The deep blue sea -- The void -- The endless summer -- Afterword

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