Balancing Acts (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Edward Hoagland
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Essays
- Genres: Nonfiction, Travel writing, Essays, Nature writing
- Subjects: Nature, Authors or writers, Circuses or carnivals, Natural history
Edward Hoagland makes sentences a mimicry of encounters along a path never walked before. He can jolt a reader, or twine one perception along another, or release a wealth of endless details he has wrested from any man or woman he has talked to. His fame rests on the essays constructed of such sentences—about turtles, tugboat captains, mountains, and those countries outside America he believes Americans should welcome to their too-provincial awareness. Travel writing, it is called, but it could be defined more lucidly as preservation-of-humanity writing, both the subject matter, when...
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