The nature book / Tom Comitta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Comitta, Tom, 1985- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecofiction.

Genre:

Experimental fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

x, 290 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2023.

Summary:

"Part sweeping evocation of Earth's rhythms, part literary archive, part post-human novel, The Nature Book collages descriptions of the natural world into a singular symphonic paean to the planet. What does our nature writing say about us, and more urgently, what would it say without us? Tom Comitta investigates these questions and more in The Nature Book, a "literary supercut" that arranges writing about the natural world from three hundred works of fiction into a provocative re-envisioning of the novel. With fiction's traditional background of flora and fauna brought to the fore, people and their structures disappear, giving center stage to animals, landforms, and weather patterns--honored in their own right rather than for their ambient role in human drama. The Nature Book challenges the confines of anthropocentrism with sublime artistic vision, traversing mountains, forests, oceans, and space to shift our attention toward the magnificently complex and interconnected world around us." -- Publisher's description

Contents:

Preface

The four seasons

The deep blue sea

The void

The endless summer

Afterword.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Comitta, Thomas, 1985- Nature book

ISBN:

9781566896634

1566896630

OCLC:

1315537661