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100 1  Hoagland, Edward. 
245 10 Sex and the River Styx /|cEdward Hoagland ; foreword by 
       Howard Frank Mosher. 
264  1 White River Junction, Vt. :|bChelsea Green Pub.,|c[2011] 
264  4 |c©2011 
300    xiv, 247 pages ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
505 0  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. 
520    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." 
600 10 Hoagland, Edward. 
600 10 Hoagland, Edward|xTravel. 
650  0 Authors, American|y20th century|vBiography. 
650  0 Authors with disabilities|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 People with visual disabilities|zUnited States|vBiography.
650  0 American essays. 
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