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—MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE
The late writer and naturalist Ellen Meloy wrote and recorded a series of audio essays for KUER, NPR Utah in the 1990s. Every few months, she would travel to their Salt Lake City studios from her red rock home of Bluff to read an essay or two. With understated humor and sharp insight, Meloy would illuminate facets of human connection to nature and challenge listeners to examine the world anew. Seasons: Desert Sketches is a compilation of these essays, transcribed from their original cassette tape recordings. Whether Meloy is pondering geese in Desolation Canyon or people at the local post office, readers will delight in her signature wit and charm—and feel the pull of the desert she loves and defends. With a foreword by Annie Proulx.
ELLEN MELOY was a native of the West and lived in California, Montana, and Utah. Her book The Anthropology of Turquoise (2002) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won the Utah Book Award and the Banff Mountain Book Festival Award in the adventure and travel category. She is also the author of Raven's Exile: A Season on the Green River (1994), The Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest (2001), and Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild (2005). Meloy spent most of her life in wild, remote places; at the time of her sudden death in November 2004 (three months after completing Eating Stone), she and her husband were living in southern Utah.
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- ISBN: 9781948814027
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- ISBN: 9781948814027
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Starred review from May 1, 2019
This posthumously published collection of brief essays by nature writer Meloy (Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild) were transcribed from her radio broadcasts in the 1990s. Every few months, Meloy (1946-2004) traveled from her home in Bluff, UT, to radio station KUER in Salt Lake City in order to chronicle life in the remote Utah desert, from encounters with bighorn sheep to benign mishaps while roofing to guiding lost tourists. With keen wit and subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) humor, Meloy also tackles the more serious issues that living in the West entails with thoughtful but tough observations, and what it means to be a liberal in a community that's otherwise. Organized loosely by season, these essays explore life in the desert lived by a woman who loved it fiercely. Included is a foreword by writer Annie Proulx. VERDICT A short but vital collection of vignettes about nature and place that readers in libraries in the West would especially appreciate.--Venessa Hughes, Denver
Copyright 2019 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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