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OverviewWith an ear for life's fractured melodies, marine biologist Stephen Spotte recounts his lifelong study of literature and the sea and his search for the mythical place where reason and revelation intersect. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Stephen SpottePublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: Excelsior Editions Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.372kg ISBN: 9781438431390ISBN 10: 1438431392 Pages: 195 Publication Date: 15 March 2010 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviewsAnd we're off, dispatched to the Spotte universe, a world that's all about perception, the objects that may be closer than they appear-including people. It's a world in which the ridiculous is so ridiculous, and so regrettable, that it requires no irony whatsoever. Just the facts, expressed in a beautiful, on-point prose style. - American Book Review The Smoking Horse is all about the good old days ... [Spotte's] stories are funny and outlandish. - San Francisco Book Review As memoir, this book illustrates beautifully how a talent for empirical observation advances the aims of prose narrative. What ultimately emerges is a subtle disquisition on the relationship between the scientific mind and its literary executor. - Joe Amato, author of Once an Engineer: A Song of the Salt City Author InformationStephen Spotte is Adjunct Scientist at Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida. He is the author of Bluegills: Biology and Behavior; Zoos in Postmodernism: Signs and Simulation; Candiru: Life and Legend of the Bloodsucking Catfishes; and Home is the Sailor, Under the Sea: Mermaid Stories. He lives in Longboat Key, Florida. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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