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Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals
Most of us watch with mild concern the fast disappearing wild spaces or the recurrence of pollution - related crises such as oil spills, toxic blooms in fertilizer-enriched rivers, and the increasing violence in our own country. Joy Williams does much more than watch. With guts and passion, she sounds the alarm over the general disconnection from the natural world that our consumer culture has created. The culling of elephants, electron-probed chimpanzees, and the vanishing wetlands are just some of her subjects. Razor-sharp, controversial, scathingly opinionated, and refreshingly unafraid of conflict, Williams refuses to compromise as she lashes out at the greed of Americans and decries our own turpitude. It is not enough to mourn the passing of the natural world, Ill Nature shouts. Get out of our homes and our cars and our cubicles and do something...now.
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: • Essays• Essays• Ethics & 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
"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