{"product_id":"fieldguide-essays-and-stories-paperback","title":"Fieldguide, Essays and Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSteve Sherwood\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eActing as himself in his essays and as various protagonists in his stories, the author shows us a hunger for a vanished world of natural splendor and ideal love. The essays are persuasively strong, rising to a thematic climax in the powerfully reasoned \"Environmentalist as Misanthrope.\" As for the matching antiphonal stories, they delight with their surprise endings and several-\"The Swimmer,\" \"The Bright Side,\" \"Assassinations\" -may best be described as small masterpieces. Both the essays and stories that comprise Field Guide share a feature I call \"page richness,\" a literary quality that causes the reader to savor certain pages before continuing toward the conclusion, as one might pause on a long journey to enjoy especially appealing vistas. Writers either have this ability or they don't. Steve Sherwood has it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 159\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.39 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 11, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42734258651199,"sku":"9780988384422","price":21.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/73fe8c8d26cdb42716dde9db1d6c813d.webp?v=1765139242","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/fieldguide-essays-and-stories-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}