Seeds: One Man's Serendipitous Journey to Find the Trees That Inspired Famous American Writers from Faulkner to Kerouac, Welty to Wharton (P.S.) - Softcover

Horan, Richard

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ISBN 10: 0061861685 ISBN 13: 9780061861680

Verlag: Harper Perennial, 2014

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Book by Horan Richard

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"What an invigorating way to be reminded of the depth of America's literary and natural heritage!" -- Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet "Horan goes to find the trees, and we have the good luck to accompany him. The pleasures of travel, literature, and history are all richly present in this rare and engaging book. Horan comes to us as a friend, not a teacher, and wins our hearts." -- William Bryan Logan, author of Oak: The Frame of Civilization "Seeds is more than a book: this sashay across literary America plants a literal sacred grove. Horan sees the cloud floating inside every work of literature. He helps redeem every tree that ever died for our solace and delight." -- David James Duncan, author of The Brothers K and The River Why "Seeds reads like a talk between John Muir and Bill Bryson. Horan takes an unlikely premise and takes a journey that's poignant, insightful and unexpectedly humorous. More than a book about seeds-it's about literary heroes, forensic forestry and self-discovery." -- Spike Carlsen, author of A Splintered History of Wood "In Seeds, Horan pays homage to famous American writers and the trees of their youth. Horan is a terrific writer, and very funny at times!" -- Amy Goldman, naturalist and author of 3 books on heirloom seeds "Once in a decade a book as good as Seeds appears to astonish and delight us. Some of his tales are full of interesting lore, others are touching, more than a few are funny as hell." -- Thomas Powers

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"Seeds" is the chronicle of novelist Richard Horan's quest to gather seeds from trees at the homes of America's most beloved authors. A heartfelt paean to the writers of America's past, "Seeds" is equally a wise, funny, and enthralling memoir of one man's reconnection with nature. Horan crisscrosses the country while also traversing the wide gamut of American literature, from the wooded road of yellow hemlocks leading to L. Frank Baum's childhood home in upstate New York; to the silver maples ringing Jack Kerouac's one-time house in Lowell, MA (the same majestic giants, Horan reflects, that Kerouac was likely thinking of when he wrote that felt most at peace when in the presence of trees); to the invasive tree that grew in Betty Smith's Brooklyn. Horan is a passionate, insightful, and eminently likeable narrator, and his search to connect trees and writers-and his failure, at times, to do so-as well as the generally fun tone of his adventures (he nearly gets arrested more than once) is both fascinating and endearing. Horan's destinations include the homes of: Jack Kerouac, Rachel Carson, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Henry Miller, Krishnamurti, Ken Kesey, John Muir, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Harper Lee, Truman Capote, Thoreau and Emerson, Robert Frost, Herman Melville, Pearl S. Buck, Shirley Jackson, L. Frank Baum, Esther Forbes, Helen Keller, Tennessee Williams, Sherwood Anderson, Louis Armstrong, William S. Burroughs, Eudora Welty, Willie Morris, and William Faulkner, as well as historically significant locations such as Mount Vernon, Monticello, and Gettysburg.

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• Verlag: Harper Perennial
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0061861685
• ISBN 13: 9780061861680
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384