John Mcphee

The Second John McPhee Reader

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This second volume of The John McPhee Reader includes material from his eleven books published since 1975, including Coming into the Country, Looking for a Ship, The Control of Nature, and the four books on geology that comprise Annals of the Former World.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 209mm x 140mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780374524630
• ISBN-10: 0374524637
• Artikelnr.: 22173331

Autorenporträt

John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. Also in 1965, he published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has written over 30 books, including Oranges (1967), Coming into the Country (1977), The Control of Nature (1989), The Founding Fish (2002), Uncommon Carriers (2007), and Silk Parachute (2011). Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) and The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science. McPhee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977. In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Inhaltsangabe

[With the exception of "Under the Snow," which is here in its entirety, all
titles are represented by excerpts.]
Introduction
from Giving Good Weight (A Collection)
"Giving Good Weight"
"Brigade de Cuisine"
from Basin and Range
from In Suspect Terrain
from La Place de la Concorde Suisse
from Table of Contents (A Collection)
"Under the Snow"
"Heirs of General Practice"
"North of the C. P. Line"
from Rising from the Plains
from The Control of Nature
from Looking for a Ship
from Assembling California
from The Ransom of Russian Art