Vintage Lopez edition by Barry Lopez Literature Fiction eBooks
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Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the greatest modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.
“Lopez has such great narrative skill and uses his words so carefully the simple intensity is often nearly overwhelming.” —The Oregonian
Barry Lopez is an unparalleled explorer of the relationship between humanity and nature, one he limns in prose as beautiful as it is economical. His essays and short fiction have appeared everywhere from Outside to Harper’s and The Paris Review. He is the winner of a 1986 National Book Award for his bestselling Arctic Dreams.
Vintage Lopez is divided into two parts, nonfiction and fiction. It includes “Landscape and Narrative” ; the prologue to Arctic Dreams; and such classic short stories “The Entreaty of the Wiideema” and “The Mappist.”
Also included, for the first time in book form, the essay “The Naturalist.”
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Vintage Lopez edition by Barry Lopez Literature Fiction eBooks
Very descriptive and enlightening. I wish they would make availableon KINDLE his "Arctic Dreams"... they are companion pieces in my
estimation.
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Vintage Lopez edition by Barry Lopez Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Stories are told to entertain and/or enlighten. His formulation makes it seems as if art is some sort of laxative. He also subscribes to the rather noxious idea that art is about truth, and that there exists some sort of sacred trust, or the like, between writers and readers, when all an artist owes his audience is always attempting his best.
Yet, this sort of creping insipidity is not the bulk of his prose, nor even more than an occasional weak moment, or brain fart. The best of his essays is also the longest, Flight, which sees Lopez tagging along with often odd commercial cargo deliveries on Boeing 747s as they jet about the planet. The descriptions of nature, time, flying, and the human condition's off-kiltering, due to these factors, evokes the best of Antoine de Saint-Exupery and Eiseley. Yet, Lopez's poetry comes from sentence structure within paragraphs, not a heightened sense of word deployment.
His fiction is almost essay-like, too. In fact, most of the pieces might properly be deemed `fictive essays' rather than short stories. The first story, The Entreaty Of The Wiideema, exemplifies this, as it follows a sociologist through his telling of his tale with a fictive Australian tribe. The worst tale is a story of two horny South American saints who were lovers, The Letters Of Heaven. It simply is a nice idea that really goes nowhere, save for a son's realization that he must carry on the family tradition of protecting the `blasphemous' letters from the vicious Roman Catholic Church. The last story, The Mappist, is a classic the equal of all but the very best of an Eiseley, and far above other likeminded souls like Edward Abbey. It is about the quest of a man obsessed with some travel books he found as a youth, who eventually tracks down its elusive author, Corlis Benefideo. To say more would be unfair to your enjoyment of it- but it is well-constructed, filled with memorable lines, moments, and images, and ends with insight, and poetry.
I highly recommend this book to anyone, and will, when my daunting pile of `To Read' books shrinks, be getting the assorted books these essays and stories were selected from. Such motivation is the real bond between artist and audience any artist can assent to!
Excellent introduction to Lopez work, wonderful, stunning short stories, good choice of essays. One wishes the volume had included more excerpts.
Very descriptive and enlightening. I wish they would make available
on KINDLE his "Arctic Dreams"... they are companion pieces in my
estimation.
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