{"product_id":"winter-count-9780679781417","title":"Winter Count","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Animals and landscapes have not had this weight, this precision, in American fiction since Hemingway's young heroes were fishing the streams of upper Michigan and Spain.\" --\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA flock of great blue herons descending through a snowstorm to the streets of New York. . . . A river in Nebraska disappearing mysteriously. . . . A ghostly herd of buffalo that sings a song of death. . . . A mystic who raises constellations of stones from the desert floor. . . . All these are to be found in \u003ci\u003eWinter Count\u003c\/i\u003e, the exquisite and rapturous collection by the National Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eArctic Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn these resonant and unpredictable stories Barry Lopez proves that he is one of the most important and original writers at work in America today. With breathtaking skill and a few deft strokes he produces painfully beautiful scenes. Combining the real with the wondrous, he offers us a pure vision of people alive to the immediacy and spiritual truth of nature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBarry Lopez is the author of three collections of essays, including \u003ci\u003eHorizon;\u003c\/i\u003e several story collections; \u003ci\u003eArctic Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e, for which he received the National Book Award; \u003ci\u003eOf Wolves and Men\u003c\/i\u003e, a National Book Award finalist; and \u003ci\u003eCrow and Weasel\u003c\/i\u003e, a novella-length fable. He contributed regularly to both American and foreign journals and traveled to more than seventy countries to conduct research. He was the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim, Lannan, and National Science Foundations and was honored by a number of institutions for his literary, humanitarian, and environmental work. He died in 2020. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ewww.barrylopez.com\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50327037608210,"sku":"9780679781417","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ffbbe892-8eb3-4a3b-b4df-21627fbc29b2.jpg?v=1727708712","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/winter-count-9780679781417","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}