I call the stream ours because our house is in its valley and a corner of our land touches the stream at a dramatic bend, and because my wife and our daughter (always in the company of our dogs) walk down to that bend every morning, every season. The stream is our point of contact with all the waters of the world. Great blue herons, yellow birches, damselflies, and beavers are among the many runes by which Bill Roorbach discovers a universe of nature along the stream that runs by his home in Farmington, Maine. Populated by an oddball cast of characters to whom the generous-spirited Roorbach (aka he Professor? and his family might always be outsiders, these pages chronicle one man determination ?sometimes with hilarious results ?to follow his stream directly to its elusive source. Acclaimed essayist as well as award-winning author of fiction, Bill Roorbach brings his singular literary gifts to a book that is inspirational, funny, loving, and filled with the wonder of living side by side with the natural world. Praise for Bill Roorbach oorbach falls, for me, into that small category of writers whose every book I must read, then reread.?ay Parini, author of The Apprentice Lover ere is a narrator who makes you glad to be alive, giddy to be in his presence, grateful to love friends and family and dogs with generosity and abandon, to show tenderness and thus be saved by strangers.?elanie Rae Thon, author of First, Bodyoorbach is a master at capturing and expressing joy.??i>Hartford Courant oorbach has a knack for tapping into deep undercurrents and bringing them to the surface with the least amount of fanfare or fuss.??i>L.A. WeeklyFrom the Hardcover edition.
Temple Stream
- 作者： Roorbach, Bill
- 出版社： Dial Pr
- 出版日期： 2006-05-30
- ISBN碼： 9780385336550
- 編號： 203c210187987
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