{"product_id":"9781250251121","title":"A Desert Harvest : New and Selected Essays","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eA Desert Harvest\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Bruce Berger\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA career-spanning collection of Bruce Berger’s beautiful, subtle, and spiky essays on the American desert\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOccupying a space between traditional nature writing, memoir, journalism, and prose poetry, Bruce Berger’s essays are beautiful, subtle, and haunting meditations on the landscape and culture of the American Southwest. Combining new, unpublished essays with selections from his acclaimed trilogy of “desert books”—\u003ci\u003eThe Telling Distance\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThere Was a River\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAlmost an Island\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003ci\u003eA Desert Harvest \u003c\/i\u003eis a career-spanning selection of the best work by this unique and undervalued voice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWasteland architecture, mountaintop astronomy, Bach in the wilderness, the mind of the wood rat, the canals of Phoenix, and the numerous eccentric personalities who call the desert their home all come to life in these fascinating portraits of America’s seemingly desolate terrains.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"A Desert Harvest \u003c\/i\u003erenders Berger’s travels across the Southwest and down through Baja California Sur with plenty of\u003cb\u003e charm and a comic sense for the surreal\u003c\/b\u003e, but it also leaps beyond: into questions of water use or the substance of time . . . The book places him \u003cb\u003eamong the best of past generations to write about the Southwest\u003c\/b\u003e.\" —Sean McCoy, \u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Captures the myriad ways the \u003cb\u003esouthwest desert casts a spell\u003c\/b\u003e.\" —\u003ci\u003eNational Geographic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Berger is a chronicler of desert life in all its forms, from the cactuses to life in the small towns of the Southwest. [\u003ci\u003eA Desert Harvest\u003c\/i\u003e] spans a career of over 30 years, leaving readers with \u003cb\u003ean impressionistic picture of a distinctly American ecology\u003c\/b\u003e.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"When he hits the mark, \u003cb\u003ethere are few living writers more at home in desert country than Berger\u003c\/b\u003e . . . Hit the mark he does here . . . Berger's essays in [\u003ci\u003eA Desert Harvest\u003c\/i\u003e] are pleasures to read.\" —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eCuts to the heart of the fierce and enduring attraction of the desert . . . A glowing appreciation for the landscape . . . radiates across Mr. Berger’s \u003ci\u003eA Desert Harvest\u003c\/i\u003e, a sublime assortment of new and selected essays . . . [Berger's writing is] poised, magisterial.\" —Sam Sacks, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781250251121\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40710558253262,"sku":"9781250251121","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_333235be-9271-446c-88e5-4b01de802577.jpg?v=1640752733","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781250251121","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}