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The Absent Hand: Reimagining Our American Landscape
Counterpoint
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9781640093515
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Of beach plums, ramps, and Ramada Inns: a quietly sensitive eminently sensible consideration of the landscapes of our lives . . . A gift. Kirkus Reviews Following her bestselling The Architect of Desire, Suzannah Lessard returns with a remarkable book, a work of relentless curiosity and a graceful mixture of observation and philosophy. This intriguing hybrid will remind some of W. G. Sebalds work and others of Rebecca Solnits, but it is Lessards singular talent to combine this profound booklength mosaic a blend of historical travelogue, reportorial probing, philosophical meditation, and prose poeminto a work of unique genius, as she describes and reimagines our landscapes. In this exploration of our surroundings, The Absent Hand contends that to reimagine landscape is a form of cultural reinvention. This engrossing work of literary nonfiction is a deep dive into our surroundingscities, countryside, and sprawlexploring change in the meaning of place and reimagining the world in a time of transition. Whether it be climate change altering the meaning of nature, or digital communications altering the nature of work, the effects of global enclosure on the meaning of place are panoramic, infiltrative, inescapable. No one will finish this book, this journey, without having their ideas of living and settling in their surroundings profoundly enriched.
- | Author: Suzannah Lessard
- | Publisher: Counterpoint
- | Publication Date: March 17, 2020
- | Number of Pages: 320 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1640093516
- | ISBN-13: 9781640093515
- Author:
- Suzannah Lessard
- Publisher:
- Counterpoint
- Publication Date:
- March 17, 2020
- Number of pages:
- 320 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1640093516
- ISBN-13:
- 9781640093515