One Long River of Song
Notes on Wonder
$44.59
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
13 April 2021
Summary
When Brian Doyle passed away at the age of sixty after a bout with brain cancer, he left behind a cult-like following of devoted readers who regard his writing as one of the best-kept secrets of the twenty-first century. Doyle writes with a delightful sense of wonder about the sanctity of everyday things, and about love and connection in all their forms: spiritual love, brotherly love, romantic love, and even the love of a nine-foot sturgeon.
At a moment when the world can sometimes f…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780316492881 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0316492884 |
| Author: | Brian Doyle, David James Duncan |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown & Company |
| Imprint: | Back Bay Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 13 April 2021 |
| Weight: | 250g |
| Dimensions: | 208mm x 138mm x 22mm |
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Critics Review
Astonishing… gorgeous… Doyle was a writer ‘made of love and song and amusement.’ Every living thing intrigued him and was worthy of his powerful capacity for study and his equally powerful capacity for celebration. - New York Times
Brian Doyle took on the everyday and he suffused it, every last drop of it, with a redefining soulfulness… This posthumous collection will leave you marveling and wiping away the occasional tear. Certainly you will spill ink on its pages—starring and underlining, sprinkling exclamations up and down the margins… Over and over, Doyle’s musings are canticles of joy, punctuated with occasional double-shots of heartbreak and humility. It’s the textured layering, the leap from shadow to light, that keeps the reader alert, and ever absorbing. Always, emphatically, there comes wisdom; it’s a signature move, one you can count on. Have your pens aimed and ready. It’s a gospel of the ordinary, the shoved-aside, the otherwise overlooked. And at the heart of it, that ineffable and necessary unction, a holiness you can all but hold in your palms - Chicago TribuneAbout The Author
Brian Doyle
Brian Doyle (1956-2017) was born in New York and attended the University of Notre Dame. He worked at U.S. Catholic Magazine, Boston College Magazine and, up until his death, was the editor of Portland Magazine. He wrote a number of novels and works of nonfiction, and his essays appeared in the New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s Orion, American Scholar, America Magazine, and many more. He won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, the 2017 John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Nature Writing, the Oregon Book Award, three Pushcart Prizes, among others, and had multiple essays included in Best American Essays.
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