{"product_id":"the-nature-book-paperback","title":"The Nature Book - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTom Comitta\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart sweeping evocation of Earth's rhythms, part literary archive, part post-human novel, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Nature Book\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e collages descriptions of the natural world into a singular symphonic paean to the planet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat does our nature writing say about us, and more urgently, what would it say \u003cem\u003ewithout\u003c\/em\u003e us? Tom Comitta investigates these questions and more in \u003cem\u003eThe Nature Book\u003c\/em\u003e, a \"literary supercut\" that arranges writing about the natural world from three hundred works of fiction into a provocative re-envisioning of the novel. With fiction's traditional background of flora and fauna brought to the fore, people and their structures disappear, giving center stage to animals, landforms, and weather patterns--honored in their own right rather than for their ambient role in human drama. \u003cem\u003eThe Nature Book \u003c\/em\u003echallenges the confines of anthropocentrism with sublime artistic vision, traversing mountains, forests, oceans, and space to shift our attention toward the magnificently complex and interconnected world around us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTom Comitta is the author of 〇, \u003ci\u003eAirport Novella, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFirst Thought Worst Thought: Collected Books 2011-2014, \u003c\/i\u003e a print and digital archive of forty \"night novels,\" art books, and poetry collections. Comitta's fiction and essays have appeared in WIRED, Lit Hub, Electric Literature, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Believer, BOMB\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBest American Experimental Writing 2020\u003c\/i\u003e. They live in Brooklyn.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 14, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42691968499775,"sku":"9781566896634","price":21.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/556af150922bde55a7270835d00f7de2.webp?v=1764993775","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-nature-book-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}