A Slender Thread
by ACKERMAN, DIANEEdition: 1st
Format: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 1998-03-31
Publisher(s): Vintage
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Summary
his astonishing book by the prizewinning, bestselling author of A Natural History of the Senses reveals Ackerman's parallel lives as an observer of the wildlife in her garden and as a telephone crisis counselor. "(Ackerman) brings a luminous and illuminating combination of sensuality, science, and speculation to whatever she considers."--San Francisco Examiner. From the Hardcover edition.
Author Biography
Diane Ackerman earned degrees at Penn State and Cornell, received many grants and awards, and has taught at a variety of universities. Her work frequently appears in National Geographic, Parade, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and other journals
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. 3 |
| Borrowed Hearts | p. 5 |
| Squirrels, and the Dark Night of the Soul | p. 26 |
| All the Bright Catastrophes | p. 45 |
| A Mass of Life | p. 62 |
| The Golden Apples of the Sun, and Silver Apples of the Moon | p. 81 |
| The Shape of Fire | p. 95 |
| The Heart's Asylum | p. 112 |
| The Darkness of Our Days | p. 135 |
| So Glory Descends | p. 162 |
| The Orators of August | p. 188 |
| The World Unwound | p. 208 |
| Desperate Measures | p. 236 |
| A Last of Last Times | p. 253 |
| Before the Dawn | p. 264 |
| Close Calls | p. 291 |
| Notes and Acknowledgments | p. 295 |
| Index | p. 297 |
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