Author: Barry Lopez
Narrator: Barry Lopez
Abridged: 2 hr 56 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published: 03/01/2007
Categories: Fiction, Short Stories
Barry Lopez's (1945-2020) books include Light Action in the Caribbean, About This Life, the novella-length fable Crow and Weasel, and Arctic Dreams, for which he received the National Book Award. He traveled extensively in remote regions of the world, and his work has been widely translated and anthologized. He was a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim, Lannan, and National Science foundations; the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; the John Burroughs and John Hay medals; and other honors.
Barry Lopez has been an important writer for me for decades. I'm going to miss his voice very, very much. ARCTIC DREAMS is an absolute classic. My relationship to his short fiction has been varied from the start. His stories are clear in their purpose and often admirably innovative. He tries lots of......more
This collection of short stories proves that Lopez is underrated as a fiction writer--oh sure, he's won awards, but his nonfiction overshadows the little gems he writes (see Resistance for an excellent book). As the title suggests, most of the stories deal with people who are intent on observing,......more
I've read some Barry Lopez before but it's been a while. I was disappointed by this collection. It was one story after another with the same theme: arrogant materialistic intellectual has a transformative experience discovering mystical beyond-believable miracles out in nature. I love nature writing......more
Favorite line: "I departed-my body deft, taut-with a clear sense of where I should go: the route, the dangers, the distances by day. But then the landscape became vast." Each of these stories speaks of how our desire to know, to analyze, to categorize, to enact some method of control in our lives is......more
Lopez is best known for nonfiction like Arctic Dreams and Of Wolf and Man, but he’s also an accomplished writer of fiction. Field Notes is a set of short stories that have a common theme: each of the characters is changed by their connection with the land. A botanist who has lost his way with his fa......more