John McPhee

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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1985. Hardcover. 8vo., 293 pp. A collection of eight pieces that range from Alaska to New Jersey, describing, for example, the arrival of telephones in a small village near the Arctic Circle and the arrival of wild bears in considerable numbers in New Jersey, swarming in from the Pocono Mountains, in search of a better life ['Riding the Boom Extension,' "A Textbook Place for Bears'). McPhee is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Wallace Stegner Prize, and was twice nominated for the National Book Award. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Item #918202547

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