Islands, the Universe, Home

by Gretel Ehrlich

Book Overview

Gretel Ehrlich's world is one of isolation and wonder, of pain and grace, and these elements ignite her vivid imagination. She writes of ravens and elk and prairie dogs, and eagles falling out of the sky. She tells of a voyage of discovery in northern Japan, where she finds her "bridge to heaven." She captures a "light moving down a mountain slope." One evening there is a contrapuntal dance of death: a calf she has tried to save, and a friend and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140109072
• ISBN13: 9780140109078
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 7.7"