{"product_id":"songs-of-the-fluteplayer-seasons-of-life-in-the-southwest-paperback","title":"Songs of the Fluteplayer: Seasons of Life in the Southwest - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSharman Apt Russell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFilled with \"honest\" writing and \"wise\" observations, \"Russell's well-written essays describe her life as an urban immigrant to the rural Southwest\" (\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 1981, newlywed Sharman Apt Russell moved with her husband to an agricultural valley in southwestern New Mexico, hoping to create a simpler life. From building their adobe house to the home-birth of their firstborn to growing their own food and navigating the seasonal flooding of the Mimbres River, these luminous essays chart Sharman's journey toward self-sufficiency in a land as mythical and remote as the image of the prehistoric fluteplayer found on the pottery in trading posts throughout the Southwest. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Replete with wisdom and a reverence for the Native American people whose relics Sharman discovers everywhere on the land around her, this award-winning memoir pays tribute to the power and grace of nature, our deep connection to our prehistoric past, and the beauty of living in communion with the land. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A fine contribution to the literature of the modern American Southwest . . . [Russell] achieves just the right mix of fact and metaphor, humor and poetics.\" --\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"These essays say much about the difficulty of maintaining an alternate lifestyle.\" --\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A lovely little book. To be kept and read and read again.\" --Tony Hillerman, bestselling author\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSharman Apt Russell was awarded the 2016 John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Nature Writing, whose other recipients include Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, and Roger Tory Peterson. Her works include the award-winning young adult historical fantasy\u003ci\u003e Teresa of the New World\u003c\/i\u003e, set in the dreamscape of the sixteenth-century American Southwest, and \u003ci\u003eKnocking on Heaven's Door\u003c\/i\u003e, which takes place in a science fiction Paleoterrific future. Her nonfiction ranges from \u003ci\u003eDiary of a Citizen Scientist\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eStanding in the Light: My Life as a Pantheist\u003c\/i\u003e. Sharman is a professor emerita at Western New Mexico University in Silver City, New Mexico, and affiliate faculty at Antioch University in Los Angeles. She lives with her husband in the Gila Valley of southwestern New Mexico. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 146\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.34 x 8 x 5.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 06, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47529280143613,"sku":"9781504079358","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/QmlXVE41Q0s1ZkM5MDc4KzVaVGthUT09.webp?v=1778594192","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/songs-of-the-fluteplayer-seasons-of-life-in-the-southwest-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}