Jean McNeil, Author Milkweed Editions $16 (200p) ISBN 978-1-57131-026-2
From the enigmatic start of this haunting, atmospheric fiction debut, McNeil envelops readers in a stark and stunningly different world. Seven-year-old Morag knows what grandparents are, but for a long time is unaware that she has parents. Her...
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Jean McNeil. ECW (PGW/Legato, U.S. dist.; Jaguar Book Group, Canadian dist.) $24.95 (440p) ISBN 978-1-77041-318-4
A desolate polar landscape comes to life in this memorable book chronicling McNeil's (Private View) period as writer-in-residence for the British Antarctic Survey, focusing on her four months in Antarctica. Having signed on to witness scientific...
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Jean McNeil. ECW (Legato, U.S. dist.; Jaguar, Canadian dist.), $16.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-77041-349-8
This is an interesting but somewhat disappointing novel from McNeil, who has won PRISM International awards for her fiction and nonfiction. The contemporary story begins as Rebecca Laurelson takes time off from her job as a field surgeon in East...
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Jean McNeil. Barbican, $18.95 trade paper (280p) ISBN 978-1-909954-11-3
In this meditative essay collection, McNeil (Fire on the Mountain) draws from decades of travel to the world’s most remote places to reflect on the beauty and terror of wild landscapes that are under ecological threat. Whether she’s recounting her...
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