Winter Count
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If science seeks to demystify life, literature can restore a needed measure of wonder to it. Or, as one of the characters in Barry Lopez's collection of short stories Winter Count puts it, "If you are careful, I think there is probably nothing that cannot be retrieved." Much indeed is retrieved in Lopez's pages, first published in 1981: lost species, lost memories, lost emotions. In one especially Borgesian story, a university professor seeks to puzzle out the facts behind 19th-century reports of a herd of white buffalo that, singing, pointed a way into heaven. In another, a young man catches a glimps
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Manufacturer: Vintage
Release date: 2 November 1999
ISBN-10 : 0679781412 | ISBN-13: 9780679781417
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Release date: 2 November 1999
ISBN-10 : 0679781412 | ISBN-13: 9780679781417