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Cargando... The Company of Swans (1997)por Jim Crumley
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This must be one of the best books I have read in a long time. It is short, sweet and thought provoking. It is all about a love match between mute swans followed by a love affair and an unusual break up. It is all about the beauty of the Scottish landscape and the behaviour of swans. It is all about human frailty and unintended consequences of do gooding. Beware egg-eating otters. The illustrations complement the text perfectly. It is a sad and moving story but it is just a way of life and we shouldn’t feel sad. ( ) In this slim book, Crumley reflects upon the beauties and harsh realities of nature. His façade of pragmatism and objective detachment for the subjects of his interest is belied by his efforts to aid a pair of mute swans successfully hatch a clutch of eggs. He accepts his and their failures as unsentimentally as Nature itself, but his feeling of loyalty to the old pen, more sustained and faithful than that of her mate, his realisation of his love for her as a fellow-being, Brockway's engravings of the swans, including a couple featuring Crumley himself, are a fitting complement to the text. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
A pair of mute swans struggle against the odds to sustain their life on a wild patch of loch. Then the hen starts to lose her eggs to predators. She builds her nest and lays her eggs, only to lose them, again and again, days before hatching. Jim Crumley is the author of The Road and the Miles. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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