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A collection of twelve short stories includes the adventures of a scientist who sees wild animals in empty urban spaces, a gravely ill woman who weaves her desires into a luminous cloth, and an anthropologist who is shocked by aboriginal violence. Reprint. NYT.
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A scientist sees wild animals in empty urban spaces . . . A gravely ill woman weaves her desires into luminous cloth . . . An anthropologist seeks redemption in the bush, but is thwarted by an aboriginal people's indifference to natural violence. In twelve transcendent and affecting short fictions, National Book Award-winning author Barry Lopez demonstrates once again his respect for disparate ways of knowing and being, and his sense of the magic and marvelous strangeness of the real world.
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