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Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals

Joy Williams

Williams tackles a host of controversial subjects in this collection of nineteen impassioned essays dealing mostly with humanity's abuses of the natural world.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Lyons Press
  • Publish Date: Oct 10th, 2015
  • Pages: 200
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.40in - 0.70in - 0.65lb
  • EAN: 9780762796502
  • Categories: EssaysEssaysEthics & Moral Philosophy

Praise for this book

"Joy Williams is now the most gifted writer of her generation." -- Harold Brodkey

"Joy Williams is simply a wonder." -- Raymond Carver

"Savage, serious, hilarious, passionate, loving, and lyrical." --Kirkus Reviews

"Williams means to incite, rattle, and pique. Extremely well informed.... These howls, protests, and pleas for sanity are lacerating, brilliant, and necessary." --Booklist

"Williams brings plenty of heat to the page--and plenty of light, too." --Amazon.com

"Compelling...Highly recommended." --Library Journal

"She's seriously ticked off, wholly unapologetic, and enormously fun to read." --San Diego Union-Tribune