The comfort of crows : a backyard year
(Book, New Book)
Author
Contributors
Renkl, Billy, illustrator.
Published
New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2023].
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Location | Format | Call Number | Note | Status | Due Date |
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Brooks Memorial Library - Nonfiction - Mezzanine | New Book | 508.2 REN | Purchased with a grant from the Vermont Foodbank | Checked Out | March 27, 2024 |
Location | Format | Call Number | Note | Status | Due Date |
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Putney Public Library - Biography - New | New Book | BIO REN | On Shelf | ||
Norman Williams Public Library - Nonfiction - 1st Floor | Book | 814.6 RENKL, M. | Checked Out | April 30, 2024 | |
Starksboro Public Library - Nonfiction - Main Library | Book | 508.2 RENKL | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2023].
Format
Book, New Book
Physical Desc
xvi, 269 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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General Note
"A luminous book that traces the passing of seasons, personal and natural." -- Dust jacket.
Description
"In The Comfort of Crows, Margaret Renkl presents a literary devotional: fifty-two chapters that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a year. As we move through the seasons -- from a crow spied on New Year's Day, its resourcefulness and sense of community setting a theme for the year, to the lingering bluebirds of December, revisiting the nest box they used in spring -- what develops is a portrait of joy and grief: joy in the ongoing pleasures of the natural world, and grief over winters that end too soon and songbirds that grow fewer and fewer. Along the way, we also glimpse the changing rhythms of a human life. Grown children, unexpectedly home during the pandemic, prepare to depart once more. Birdsong and night-blooming flowers evoke generations past. The city and the country where Renkl raised her family transform a little more with each passing day. And the natural world, now in visible flux, requires every ounce of hope and commitment from the author--and from us. For, as Renkl writes, 'radiant things are bursting forth in the darkest places, in the smallest nooks and deepest cracks of the hidden world.' With fifty-two original color artworks by the author's brother, Billy Renkl, The Comfort of Crows is a lovely and deeply moving book from a cherished observer of the natural world." --,Publisher's description.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Renkl, M., & Renkl, B. (2023). The comfort of crows: a backyard year (First edition.). Spiegel & Grau.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Renkl, Margaret and Billy, Renkl. 2023. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year. Spiegel & Grau.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Renkl, Margaret and Billy, Renkl. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year Spiegel & Grau, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Renkl, Margaret,, and Billy Renkl. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year First edition., Spiegel & Grau, 2023.
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