Gretel Ehrlich, Author . Pantheon $27.50 (400p) ISBN 978-0-679-44200-4
The book's epigraph, "I am nothing. I see all," comes from Emerson, but it might have been spoken by any of the shamans, mythical animals or spirit guides who inhabit this haunting work. It also catches the tenor of Ehrlich's...
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Gretel Ehrlich, Author . Pantheon $21.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-375-42251-5
In this lyrical meditation on deep cold and its potential demise through global warming, Ehrlich (The Solace of Open Spaces
; This Cold Heaven
) backpacks among the glaciers of the southern Andes, winters in a Wyoming cabin and sails with the...
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Gretel Ehrlich, Author Penguin Books $15 (208p) ISBN 978-0-14-010907-8
Loss and recovery, isolation and connectedness are themes running through this powerful, idiosyncratic collection of naturalistic essays. Author tour. (Oct.)
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Gretel Ehrlich, Author Viking Books $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-80678-2
Like many before her, poet Gretel Ehrlich discovered the therapeutic qualities of the West. In 1976, a time of personal crisis, she moved from the East to a small farm in Wyoming where she ultimately found peace of mind and inspiration. Originally,...
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Gretel Ehrlich, Author Viking Books $18.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-670-82160-0
This first novel by poet and essayist Ehrlich ( The Solace of Open Spaces earned comparison with Whitman and Thoreau) builds its story around the WW II internment of some 100,000 Japanese-Americans. Not far from an actual relocation camp on Heart...
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Gretel Ehrlich, Author Penguin Books $20 (432p) ISBN 978-0-14-010906-1
This first novel builds itself around the WW II internment of some 100,000 Japanese-Americans. Ehrlich's assiduous research is evident, but, worthy as her intentions may be, her characters often are only wafer-thin. ``The novel succeeds less as a...
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Gretel Ehrlich, Author Capra Press $9.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-88496-315-8
Ehrlich's skilled collection of 14 short stories complements her novel Heart Mountain but can be read independently. In fact, the first four stories, comprising slightly more than half of this volume, duplicate material from the novel, which is set...
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Gretel Ehrlich, Author Viking Books $19.95 (20p) ISBN 978-0-670-82161-7
Loss and recovery, isolation and connectedness are themes running through this powerful, idiosyncratic collection of naturalisticper web essays. Observing nature's rule over her Wyoming farm, Ehrlich ( The Solace of Open Spaces ) notes both...
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Gretel Ehrlich. Pantheon, $25 (240p) ISBN 978-0-307-90731-8
Rarely has "you-are-here" reporting been as eloquent and searing as Ehrlich's visit to Japan's Tohoku coast. This is where, in March of 2011, an earthquake and subsequent tsunami "devastated almost four hundred miles of Japan's northeastern coast...
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Gretel Ehrlich, Author, Ehrlich, Author, Kate Kiesler, Illustrator Hyperion Books $15.49 (160p) ISBN 978-0-7868-2309-3
Novelist, poet and nonfiction author Ehrlich (Islands; The Solace of Open Spaces) ventures confidently onto new terrain in her eloquent and affecting debut children's novel. Timmy, a 13-year-old girl who lives with her parents on a sprawling ranch...
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Gretel Ehrlich, Author, James Ed. Cohen, Author Pantheon Books $21 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-42550-2
In 1991 the author of this lyrical narrative of resurrection was struck by lightning near her Wyoming ranch. The effects of this electrocution were long-lasting, requiring intensive medical attention for the physical and mental trauma that included...
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Gretel Ehrlish, Author, Gretel Ehrlich, Author Beacon Press (MA) $20 (144p) ISBN 978-0-8070-7310-0
In spare, lyrical prose, Ehrlich inventively recounts her 1995 spiritual trip to China and Tibet. ""I had come to China to pick up the threads of a once flourishing Buddhist culture,"" she writes, ""and thought I could find it in their sacred...
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Gretel Ehrlich. Pantheon, $26.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-307-91179-7
“I’ve moved too much—something like twenty-eight times since I came of age,” writes Ehrlich in this expansive recollection of her travels. She writes that this is a bookend to her 1986 classic The Solace of Open Spaces; here, she recounts the places
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