Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals - Softcover

Williams, Joy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0762796502 ISBN 13: 9780762796502

Publisher: Lyons Press, 2015

Synopsis

Williams tackles a host of controversial subjects in this collection of nineteen impassioned essays dealing mostly with humanity's abuses of the natural world.

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About the Author

Joy Williams is the author of four novels, two short-story collections, and a history of the Florida Keys. She has received the Rea Award for the Short Story and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her novel, The Quick and the Dead, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

From the Back Cover

Most of us watch with mild concern the fast disappearing wild spaces or the recurrence of pollution - related crises such as oil spills, toxic blooms in fertilizer-enriched rivers, and the increasing violence in our own country. Joy Williams does much more than watch. With guts and passion, she sounds the alarm over the general disconnection from the natural world that our consumer culture has created. The culling of elephants, electron-probed chimpanzees, and the vanishing wetlands are just some of her subjects. Razor-sharp, controversial, scathingly opinionated, and refreshingly unafraid of conflict, Williams refuses to compromise as she lashes out at the greed of Americans and decries our own turpitude. It is not enough to mourn the passing of the natural world, Ill Nature shouts. Get out of our homes and our cars and our cubicles and do something...now.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0762796502
• ISBN 13: 9780762796502
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200