The precarious walk : essays from sand & sky
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Published
Salt Lake City : Torrey House Press, 2022.
Format
Book
Edition
First Torrey House Press edition.
Physical Desc
227 pages : illustration ; 21 cm.
Status
Uintah County Library - General NonFiction - Second Floor
814.6 BARBER
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814.6 BARBER
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Published
Salt Lake City : Torrey House Press, 2022.
Edition
First Torrey House Press edition.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Autobiographical essays.
Description
In wide-ranging personal essays at the crossroads of place and perspective, Phyllis Barber challenges and celebrates her Great Basin roots. From a backwoods church in Arkansas to the disappeared town of St. Thomas, buried beneath the waters of Lake Mead, award-winning essayist Phyllis Barber travels roads both internal and external, reflecting upon place and perspective, ambition and loss in The Precarious Walk. As a child growing up in the Mojave Desert, she witnesses the massive power of the Hoover Dam and a fiery rip in the sky from the Nevada Test Site. As an adult, Barber searches for meaning through music, movement, and human connection, examining her Mormon upbringing, the profound ways people and landscape impact one another, and the sudden loss of her first child with open-ended honesty. Barber's distinctly feminine voice expands upon the literature of the West alongside Ellen Meloy and Terry Tempest Williams, with seeking and questioning at the heart of this deeply felt collection. In the spirit of Flannery O'Connor and David James Duncan, Barber adds a deeply generous and--true to her high-desert roots--down-to-earth voice to the illumination of human experience.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Barber, P. (2022). The precarious walk: essays from sand & sky (First Torrey House Press edition.). Torrey House Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Barber, Phyllis, 1943-. 2022. The Precarious Walk: Essays From Sand & Sky. Torrey House Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Barber, Phyllis, 1943-. The Precarious Walk: Essays From Sand & Sky Torrey House Press, 2022.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Barber, Phyllis. The Precarious Walk: Essays From Sand & Sky First Torrey House Press edition., Torrey House Press, 2022.
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