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Stories by Barry Lopez

Barry Lopez Barry Moser James Perrin Warren

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English
Miscellaneous
18 June 2025
The six stories in Outside showcase Barry Lopez's majestic talent as a fiction writer. Lopez writes in spare prose, but his narratives resonate with an uncanny power. With a reverence for our exterior and interior landscapes, these stories offer profound insight into the relationships between humans and animals, creativity and beauty, and, ultimately, life and death. Again and again, whether describing a Navajo rug possessing the essence of its maker, a boy who can change places with his half-coyote dog (named Leaves), or a teacher whose presence brings into question the meaning of friendship, Lopez portrays elemental and sacred places. His prose transcends its simplicity to enter spaces of wonder and mystery. As James Perrin Warren says in his compelling introduction, ""Lopez's narrators bear witness to extraordinary patterns and purposes . . . The storyteller is vital to the community and to a healthy landscape, but the vital relationship is also reciprocal. . . . We participate, along with Lopez, in the long history of storytelling. We become part of the atmosphere in which wisdom shows itself.""
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Illustrated by:   Barry Moser
Introduction by:  
Imprint:   Miscellaneous
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 228mm,  Width: 177mm, 
ISBN:   9781595343192
ISBN 10:   1595343199
Pages:   120
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Contents ""Desert Notes"" ""Twilight"" ""The Search for the Heron"" ""The Falls"" ""Within Bird's Hearing"" ""Empira's Tapestry""

Barry Moser is an illustrator, printer, painter, printmaker, designer, author, essayist, and teacher. He was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1940. He was educated at a military academy there, the Baylor School, then at Auburn University and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He did graduate work at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1970. He studied with George Cress, Leonard Baskin, Fred Becker, and Jack Coughlin. His work is represented in numerous collections, museums, and libraries in the United States and abroad, including the National Gallery of Art, the Metropolitan Museum, the British Museum, the Library of Congress, the National Library of Australia, the London College of Printing, the Pierpont Morgan Library, the Vatican Library, Harvard University, Yale University, Dartmouth College, Cambridge University, the Israel Museum, and Princeton University. The books Moser has illustrated and/or designed form a list of over 300 titles including Arion Press' Moby-Dick and the University of California Press' The Divine Comedy of Dante, and Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Reviews for Outside: Stories by Barry Lopez

""A stunning volume to be savored in a quiet, reflective mood."" — Kirkus Reviews ""Lush and suggestive myths."" — Oregon Humanities ""Lopez’s prose is expansive and spacious but grounded in the specific details of nature... eschews literary expectations in favor of ambiance and a deep sense of mystery, of meaning that lingers at the edges of our normal perceptions."" — Cascadia Weekly “[Barry Lopez is] a powerful storyteller.” — Margaret Atwood “[Barry Lopez] leaves all the right things unsaid, and the silence resonates.” — Time “[Barry Lopez] succeeds in awakening our fleeting yearning and hidden feelings.” — Denver Post “[Barry Lopez] has magic in his words.” — Minneapolis Star-Tribune


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