The Absent Hand: Reimagining Our American Landscape

The Absent Hand: Reimagining Our American Landscape

"Unusual and engaging . . . A subjective, Whitmanesque meditation on the way we live today . . . What makes this book compelling is not so much where the author goes, but how she reflects on what she sees when she gets there . . . Her wonderfully trenchant observations cast new light on the everyday." â€”Witold Rybczynski, The Wall Street Journal

Following her bestselling The Architect of Desire, Suzannah Lessard returns with
a remarkable book, a work of relentless curiosity and a graceful mixture of
observation and philosophy. This intriguing hybrid will remind some of
W. G. Sebaldâ€™s work and others of Rebecca Solnitâ€™s, but it is Lessardâ€™s singular
talent to combine this profound book-length mosaicâ€”a blend of historical travelogue,
reportorial probing, philosophical meditation, and prose poemâ€”into a work of unique
genius, as she describes and reimagines our landscapes. In this exploration of our
surroundings, The Absent Hand contends that to reimagine landscape is a form of
cultural reinvention.
Country USA
Manufacturer Counterpoint
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2019-03-12
Format Kindle eBook

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