Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place Paperback - 1992
by Terry Tempest Williams
As Utah-born naturalist Terry Tempest Williams records the simultaneous tragedies of her mother's death of cancer and the flooding of the Bear River Migratory Bird Sanctuary, she creates a document of renewal and spiritual grace destined to become a classic in the literature of nature, women, and grieving.
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I recall an experiment from school: we filled a cup with water-the surface area of the contents was only a few square inches.
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In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by. One event was nature at its most random, the other a by-product of rogue technology: Terry's mother, and Terry herself, had been exposed to the fallout of atomic bomb tests in the 1950s. As it interweaves these narratives of dying and accommodation, Refuge transforms tragedy into a document of renewal and spiritual grace, resulting in a work that has become a classic.
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- Title Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
- Author Terry Tempest Williams
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1992-09-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780679740247 / 0679740244
- Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.9 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Health & Fitness
- Library of Congress subjects Tempest, Diane Dixon - Health, Breast - Cancer - Patients - Utah - Biography
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002282335
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Citations
- Publishers Weekly, 07/20/1992, Page 0
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