Beauty - Softcover

Meltz, Mindi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0980177391 ISBN 13: 9780980177398

Publisher: Hidden Door Press, 2008

Synopsis

Beauty is the story of a lonely writer who secludes herself in a remote northern wilderness to care for injured wildlife. When a fellow researcher -- an arrogant, instinctual, and fiercely independent hunter and tracker -- begins to encounter her on secret trails, his animal nature draws her into a sudden obsession that takes her by surprise. Though he becomes her lover, he remains ever elusive and invulnerable to deep emotion. Just as she seeks the trust of the wounded birds of prey she handles -- trying to be gentler or braver, trying to disappear -- she practices stalking a man's secret heart. Now she must question her place in nature, facing the strange truth in her lover's contempt for compassion and his inflexible belief in the cold laws of survival. She must learn how to kill one animal to feed another, in order to understand in her body the surrender that true love requires.

Beauty is at once a sensual love story and the path of a woman's quiet empowerment. It explores humanity's many relationships with the rest of the living world and an artist's changing relationship with reality. Both a story and a poem, Beauty carries the reader through a fluid spiral of intimate moments -- our most familiar longings expressed in the intuitive language of the natural world.

About this title

About the Author

Originally from the coastal forests of Maine, Mindi Meltz has lived many lives: as writer, teacher, counselor, and wildlife researcher. This is her first novel. She is currently making a home in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

Review

Beauty certainly lives up to its title. Meltz's prose is rhythmic, sensuous, and elegant. Her language unifies the realms of nature and human emotions, and she enters the consciousness of other species with uncanny sensibility and deepest respect. This is archetypal romance in a setting that exposes our inescapable connections with all the rapture, eroticism and violence of the natural world. --William Carpenter, PhD, author of The Wooden Nickel

Meltz writes beautifully about winter and wildness, about desire and the northern forest... --Catherine Reid, PhD, author of Coyote: Seeking the Hunter in Our Midst

This lyrical exploration of beauty expresses the continually expanding consciousness of a writer, a young woman in love, a solitary whose longing reverberates achingly through its pages. Intimate and reflective, paced through the seasons, Beauty's passages captivate and startle with their revelation of both interior and exterior nature. --Karen Waldron, PhD, author of numerous scholarly articles on American women's literature

Meltz writes beautifully about winter and wildness, about desire and the northern forest... --Catherine Reid, PhD, author of Coyote: Seeking the Hunter in Our Midst

This lyrical exploration of beauty expresses the continually expanding consciousness of a writer, a young woman in love, a solitary whose longing reverberates achingly through its pages. Intimate and reflective, paced through the seasons, Beauty's passages captivate and startle with their revelation of both interior and exterior nature. --Karen Waldron, PhD, author of numerous scholarly articles on American women's literature

About this edition

• Publisher: Hidden Door Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0980177391
• ISBN 13: 9780980177398
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 212