Nature Stories André-Gide-Preis for Claire de Oliveira (1998) Something newly introduced

Something newly introduced

The first book from the Chicago author of the “stunning” Building Stories (The New York Times) is a pleasantly-decorated view at a lonely and emotionally impaired "everyman

As thousands of desperate refugees flock to the coast in the midst of a Soviet advance

are being encouraged to sacrifice passionate engagement with life for specious notions of success

Guns and Roses spent two years building their reputation before Appetite for Destruction

Nature Stories André-Gide-Preis for Claire de Oliveira (1998) Something newly introducedThe natural world in all its richness, glimpsed variously in the house, the barnyard, and the garden, in ponds and streams, and at large in the woods and the fields, including old friends like the dog, the cat, the cow, and the pig, along with more unusual and sometimes alarming characters such as the weasel, the dragonfly, snakes of several sorts, and even a whale, not to mention ants in their seeming infinitude and a single humble potatoall these