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Hoagland, Edward.
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Hoagland, Edward.
Hoagland, Edward -- Travel.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Authors with disabilities -- United States -- Biography.
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American essays.
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Sex and the River St...
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Sex and the River Styx / Edward Hoagland ; foreword by Howard Frank Mosher.
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Hoagland, Edward.
White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub., c2011.
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Hoagland, Edward.
Hoagland, Edward -- Travel.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Authors with disabilities -- United States -- Biography.
People with visual disabilities -- United States -- Biography.
American essays.
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http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1106/2010048877-b.html
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http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1106/2010048877-d.html
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9781603583374 (pbk.)
1603583378 (pbk.)
9781603583367 (hardback)
160358336X (hardback)
Description:
xiv, 247 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents:
Small silences -- Visiting Norah -- Last call -- Circus music -- A last look around -- Curtain calls -- Endgame -- The glue is gone -- A country for old men -- The American dissident -- East of Everest -- Barley and yaks -- Sex and the River Styx.
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Called the best essayist of his time by luminaries like Philip Roth, John Updike, and Edward Abbey, Edward Hoagland brings readers his ultimate collection. In Sex and the River Styx, the author's sharp eye and intense curiosity shine through in essays that span his childhood exploring the woods in his rural Connecticut, his days as a circus worker, and his travels the world over in his later years. Here, we meet Hoagland at his best: traveling to Kampala, Uganda, to meet a family he'd been helping support only to find a divide far greater than he could have ever imagined; reflecting on aging, love, and sex in a deeply personal, often surprising way; and bringing us the wonder of wild places, alongside the disparity of losing them, and always with a twist that brings the genre of nature writing to vastly new heights. His keen dissection of social realities and the human spirit will both startle and lure readers as they meet African matriarchs, Tibetan yak herders, circus aerialists, and the strippers who entertained college boys in 1950s Boston. Says Howard Frank Mosher in his foreword, the self-described rhapsodist "could fairly be considered our last, great transcendentalist."
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Hawaii State Library
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818.5409 Ho
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818.5409 Ho
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