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The best-selling author of A Natural History of the Senses describes her work as a telephone crisis counselor and the desperate, anonymous people with whom she deals in terms of her close observation of the wild creatures that live their lives on the edge in her own backyard. 50,000 first printing. Tour.
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Diane Ackermann volunteers every week at a local crisis center, where people call in anonymously, strung out, desperate, imploring, or hostile, holding on to hope through a phone line. Her secret life spent with callers is shocking, funny, stressful, healing, and inspiring. So, too, is her life in her backyard where the wild creatures she observes so closely are living their own lives on the edge. In her distinctive style she weaves these parallel threads into a book that is an astonishment. Using powerful stories of the human spirit set against a backdrop of the natural world she knows so well, Ackerman takes us with her on her travels between those intensely fascinating realms.
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