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Author Hoagland, Edward.

Title Sex and the River Styx / Edward Hoagland ; foreword by Howard Frank Mosher.

Publication Info. White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub., [2011]
©2011

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Location Call No. Status
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  B HOAGLAND, EDWARD    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  818.5409 HOA    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Non Fiction  814 HOAGLAND    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  B-HOAGLAND, E.    Check Shelf
Description xiv, 247 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Small silences -- Visiting Norah -- Last call -- Circus music -- A last look around -- Curtain calls -- Endgame -- The glue is gone -- A country for old men -- The American dissident -- East of Everest -- Barley and yaks -- Sex and the River Styx.
Summary Called the best essayist of his time by luminaries like Philip Roth, John Updike, and Edward Abbey, Edward Hoagland brings readers his ultimate collection. In Sex and the River Styx, the author's sharp eye and intense curiosity shine through in essays that span his childhood exploring the woods in his rural Connecticut, his days as a circus worker, and his travels the world over in his later years. Here, we meet Hoagland at his best: traveling to Kampala, Uganda, to meet a family he'd been helping support only to find a divide far greater than he could have ever imagined; reflecting on aging, love, and sex in a deeply personal, often surprising way; and bringing us the wonder of wild places, alongside the disparity of losing them, and always with a twist that brings the genre of nature writing to vastly new heights. His keen dissection of social realities and the human spirit will both startle and lure readers as they meet African matriarchs, Tibetan yak herders, circus aerialists, and the strippers who entertained college boys in 1950s Boston. Says Howard Frank Mosher in his foreword, the self-described rhapsodist "could fairly be considered our last, great transcendentalist."
Subject Hoagland, Edward.
Hoagland, Edward -- Travel.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Authors with disabilities -- United States -- Biography.
People with visual disabilities -- United States -- Biography.
American essays.
ISBN 9781603583374 paperback
1603583378 paperback
9781603583367 hardback
160358336X hardback
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