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"Originally published in Australia, The Grass Library is a philosophical and poetic journey by ""one of Australia's most skilled, unusual and versatile writers"" (Sydney Morning Herald). Both a memoir and an elegy for animal rights, The Grass Library portrays the author's relationship with his dog, four sheep, and myriad other animals in the home he shares with his partner in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. This collection of essays--with its lyrical language, its honesty and vulnerability, its charm and wit--will delight and inspire all animal lovers, and especially those who rescue animals."

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The Grass Library is one of the most beautifully written books about animals I have ever read. I know of nothing else like it published in this or any other country. It is deep, sensitive, charming, instructive and above all, humble. I cannot imagine anyone reading it without coming away in some profound sense altered. -- New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson The Grass Library constitutes its own genre--a memoir of embodied humans and animals who write themselves not quite equally into the text...It is a book about writing ethically about animals, and what the process of writing reveals. -- Animal Studies Journal By turns analytical, reflective and lyrical, The Grass Library quietly challenges the way we think about non-human beings. -- The Sydney Morning Herald

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David G. Brooks is an award-winning poet, novelist, short-fiction writer and essayist. Currently honorary associate professor in Australian literature at the University of Sydney, Brooks, a vegan and animal rights advocate, lives in New South Wales, Australia.

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