9780679771333
A Slender Thread: Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis
Diane Ackerman
ISBN 13: 9780679771333
Publisher: Vintage Books
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Softcover
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In this intimate and compassionate record of a year's service as a counselor on a suicide and crisis hotline, the author of "A Natural History of the Senses" offers fascinating parallels between human and animal behavior and suggests that crisis is an innate part of existence.
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"From Ackerman come these graceful, canny reflections on her hours spent fielding calls at a suicide prevention center....Ackerman's voracious imagination and curiosity find her making forays into biochemistry and the artistic temperament, the weather and Walt Whitman, bicycling and skiing, bringing them all to bear on her shifts at the crisis center. And it is not surprising that, as a writer of luminous essays on natural history, she is able to convincingly free-associate between the emotional geography of animals...and humans..."
Kirkus, 11/15/1996
Review:"Counselling the desperate, [Ackerman] concentrates all her senses through that tenuous telephone wire, and when she recounts the stories she hears in an elegant plain style, less has never been more."
New Yorker, 03/24/1997
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Book Description: Random House USA Inc, United States, 1999. Paperback. Book Condition: New. Reprint. 205 x 130 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. Diane Ackermann volunteers every week at a local crisis center, where people call in anonymously, strung out, desperate, imploring, or hostile, holding on to hope through a phone line. Her secret life spent with callers is shocking, funny, stressful, healing, and inspiring. So, too, is her life in her backyard where the wild creatures she observes so closely are living their own lives on the edge. In her distinctive style she weaves these parallel threads into a book that is an astonishment. Using powerful stories of the human spirit set against a backdrop of the natural world she knows so well, Ackerman takes us with her on her travels between those intensely fascinating realms. A Slender Thread is bewitchingly like her previous, widely admired books. As ever, she is sensitive to her surroundings and to other creatures; poetic, passionate, amusing; blessed with a richly furnished mind that makes leaps of imagination and insight; adept at drawing on science, literature, history, psychology, and the immediate moment - and yet this book is dramatically different from the rest of her writing. Deeply personal and intimate, it merges her own story with the stories of others, and shares her private struggles and triumphs as well as her joyous immersion in life. We learn why many hummingbirds die in their sleep, of a distraught caller whose drunken husband is stuck in the chimney singing Irish songs, of animal suicides, of an eighty-five-year-old belly dancer, of a young woman who flees her marriage and spins an elaborate fantasy life in which she captains a team of superheroes who travel the world righting its many wrongs, of the evolution of depression and anxiety as well as of our mostcherished emotions, of Winston Churchill's horrifying secret, of the beauty of shade, of the hidden costs of creativity, and hundreds of other truths about being human. In the course of a year, almost everything dangerous or poignant that can happen to human beings prompts as call to. Bookseller Inventory # AAC9780679771333 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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