{"product_id":"writing-from-the-center-9780253211439","title":"Writing from the Center","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Scott Russell Sanders\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips)\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\" . . . essays of substance and beauty, and they belong beside the work of Annie Dillard, Samuel Pickering, and Wendell Berry.\" --Library Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Sanders] eloquently expresses his love of the land and the responsibility he feels for preventing further erosion of our natural resources . . . \" --Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Skillfully written in a clear, unmannered style refreshingly devoid of irony and hollow cleverness, the author starts with everyday experiences and gleans from them larger truths.\" --The Christian Science Monitor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[These] essays are so good one is tempted to stand up and applaud after reading them. . . . Sanders is a modern day prospector who finds gems of spiritual meaning in both familiar and unusual places.\" --Body Mind Spirit\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWriting from the Center\u003c\/i\u003e is about one very fine writer's quest for a meaningful and moral life. Lannan Literary Award winner Scott Sanders (Secrets of the Universe, Staying Put, A Paradise of Bombs) seeks and describes a center that is geographical, emotional, artistic, and spiritual--and is rooted in place. The geography is midwestern, the impulses are universal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The earth needs fewer tourists and more inhabitants, it seems to me--fewer people who float about in bubbles of money and more people committed to knowing and tending their home ground.\" --Scott Russell Sanders, from the book\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press (Ips)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47591465975959,"sku":"9780253211439","price":1872.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780253211439.webp?v=1774973247","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/writing-from-the-center-9780253211439","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}