A Cape Cod Notebook

Finch, Robert

ISBN 10: 0978576691 / ISBN 13: 9780978576691

Published by On Cape Publications, Dennis, MA, 2011

About this Item

Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. iv, 188 p. From Wikipedia: "Robert Finch (born 1943) is an American nature writer and essayist. He was born in West Virginia and grew up in Newark, New Jersey. He has lived in Cape Cod since 1971 and has written several books about the nature, natural and human histories of Cape Cod. His first book, "Common Ground: A Naturalist's Cape Cod" (1981), was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for non fiction in 1982. Robert Finch has served as publications director for the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History and as a staff member of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference at Middlebury College. His radio show with the National Public Radio member station WGBH, titled "A Cape Cod Notebook", won the 2006 "New England Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Radio Writing." For ten years, Finch also taught creative nonfiction in the Spalding University Master of Fine Arts program. Annie Dillard said: "Robert Finch is one of our finest observers.I admire his essays very much for their strength, subtlety, and above all their geniality." Very good. Signed by author. Author's signature is below his typed name on the title page.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Cape Cod Notebook
• Publisher: On Cape Publications, Dennis, MA
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0978576691
• ISBN 13: 9780978576691
• Binding: Trade paperback
• Illustrator: Hart, Jason
• Edition: First edition. First printing [stated].
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

A collection of more than 50 exquisitely crafted radio essays, these short but poetic gems celebrate unique aspects of life on Cape Cod, especially the relationship between humanity and the natural world. Entranced by the island’s riches, Robert Finch takes the reader on a journey through the seasons in many well-known and beloved essays—including "Beach Ball," "Sea Dawn," "A Gratuity," "The Fish That Wouldn’t Die," "The Old Shell Game," and "Fire and Music"—that have the power to immediately connect the reader with the natural world of this region and that speak to the mysterious qualities of this peninsula that have drawn people to it for centuries.

About the Author

Widely regarded as one of America's leading nature writers, Robert Finch has lived on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, since 1971. He has published seven books of essays and is co-editor of The Norton Book of Nature Writing. His most recent book is A Cape Cod Notebook 2, a second collection of his weekly public radio radio commentaries that have been broadcast since 2005 on WCAI, the Woods Hole NPR affiliate of WGBH, and for which he received the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award for Radio Writing in 2005 and 2013. His essays have appeared in numerous magazines and journals and his books have been translated into Japanese and Chinese. For his body of work he was named as one of the New England Literary Lights for 1999 by the Associates of the Boston Public Library. In 2001 he received the Non-Fiction Award from the New England Booksellers Association.

Mr. Finch has taught at numerous colleges and writers conferences, including Williams College, Emerson College, Carleton College, Penn State, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. From 2002-2012 Mr. Finch was on the nonfiction faculty of the MFA in Writing Program at Spalding University, Louisville, Kentucky.