Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade

Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade - Paperback

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Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade - Paperback

Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade - Paperback

by Nathaniel Rich
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Book Overview

From Nathaniel Rich, author of Losing Earth, comes a beautifully told exploration of our post-natural world that points the way to a new mode of ecological writing.

We live in a time when scientists race to reanimate extinct beasts, our most essential ecosystems require monumental engineering projects to survive, chicken breasts grow in test tubes, and multinational corporations conspire to poison the blood of every living creature. No rock, leaf, or cubic foot of air on Earth has escaped humanity's clumsy signature. The old distinctions--between natural and artificial, dystopia and utopia, science fiction and science fact--have blurred, losing all meaning. We inhabit an uncanny landscape of our own creation. In Second Nature, ordinary people make desperate efforts to preserve their humanity in a world that seems increasingly alien. Their stories--obsessive, intimate, and deeply reported--point the way to a new kind of environmental literature, in which dramatic narrative helps us to understand our place in a reality that resembles nothing human beings have known.

From Odds Against Tomorrow to Losing Earth to the film Dark Waters (adapted from the first chapter of this book), Nathaniel Rich's stories have come to define the way we think of contemporary ecological narrative. Through the essays in Second Nature, he asks what it means to live in an era of terrible responsibility. The question is no longer How do we return to the world that we've lost? It is What world do we want to create in its place?
ISBN9781250829696
Author Nathaniel Rich
PublisherPicador USA
GenreEducation and Technology
FormatPaperback
PublishedMarch 2022
LanguageENG- English
Pages304
Weight1.0 lb
Print SizeStandard Print

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Born in New York City, Nathaniel Rich now lives in New Orleans. He is the author of The Mayor's Tongue. His short fiction has appeared in Vice, McSweeney's, and the American Scholar; his essays in the New York Review of Books, Harper's Magazine, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times Magazine, among other publications.

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