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Edward Hoagland Livres
Edward Hoagland est un auteur acclamé, réputé pour ses écrits distinctifs sur la nature et le voyage. Ses essais sont célébrés pour leurs observations perspicaces et leur perspective unique sur le monde. Hoagland mêle magistralement réflexions personnelles et profondes méditations sur la condition humaine au sein du règne naturel. Son œuvre offre aux lecteurs une voix singulière qui encourage la contemplation de notre place dans le vaste écosystème.
Sex and the River Styx
- 254pages
- 9 heures de lecture
Called the best essayist of his time by luminaries like Philip Roth, John Updike, and Edward Abbey, Edward Hoagland brings readers his ultimate collection. In Sex and the River Styx , the author's sharp eye and intense curiosity shine through in essays that span his childhood exploring the woods in his rural Connecticut, his days as a circus worker, and his travels the world over in his later years. Here, we meet Hoagland at his best: traveling to Kampala, Uganda, to meet a family he'd been helping support only to find a divide far greater than he could have ever imagined; reflecting on aging, love, and sex in a deeply personal, often surprising way; and bringing us the wonder of wild places, alongside the disparity of losing them, and always with a twist that brings the genre of nature writing to vastly new heights. His keen dissection of social realities and the human spirit will both startle and lure readers as they meet African matriarchs, Tibetan yak herders, circus aerialists, and the strippers who entertained college boys in 1950s Boston. Says Howard Frank Mosher in his foreword, the self-described rhapsodist "could fairly be considered our last, great transcendentalist."
