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    Field Notes: The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren
    Field Notes: The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren
    Field Notes: The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren
    Audiobook (abridged)2 hours

    Field Notes: The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren

    Written by Barry Lopez

    Narrated by Barry Lopez

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    About this audiobook

    Another powerful contribution from National Book Award winner Barry Lopez.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateMar 1, 2007
    ISBN9781598873580
    Field Notes: The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren
    Author

    Barry Lopez

    Barry Lopez's (1945-2020) books include Light Action in the Caribbean (stories), About This Life (essays and memoir), the novella-length fable Crow and Weasel, and Arctic Dreams (nonfiction), for which he received the National Book Award. He traveled extensively in remote regions of the world, and his work has been widely translated and anthologized. He was a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim, Lannan, and National Science foundations; the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; the John Burroughs and John Hay medals; and other honors.

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    • 5/5
      Although a big fan of his nonfiction, this is the first fictional work I have read by Barry Lopez--it definitely won't be the last. A beautiful collection.
    • 4/5
      The first 50 or so pages are fantastic and the rest isn't bad, either.

      plus 1 star for the note on type
    • 3/5
      Such unexpected content, I found the "Field Notes" would have benefitted from a real introduction-- not a segment of the volume with the label "introduction". I approached Field Notes as something to be consulted, checked, a legal document; I started reading it that way and was distracted by my expectations of fact, only to find out that its a series of short stories. Fiction. All my other reads of Lopez were not fiction--biography with lots of latitude, but not hallucinations. I shall read it all again, with more charity toward his imagination. One of the stories has stood the test of 20 intervening years. Fifty pages in, there is an imagined conversation between the male head of the US Fish and Wildlife Service, and a significant woman, head of an environmental defense organization, who takes him to task for not having the courage to stand up to those whose way of making money is to extract resources from the earth without paying for it. She wants action; he finds excuses, calls himself practical, while she's characterized as a prostitute for living on someone else's income. He leans on the polls too much, and she disputes the polling information. With changes in characters' names, it could be 2016.