The Island Within

The Island Within - Paperback

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The Island Within
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The Island Within - Paperback

The Island Within - Paperback

by Richard Nelson
$21.00
$21.00

Book Overview

Winner of the 1990 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, nominated for the American Book Award, and named by Booklist as an Editor's Choice, this is Nelson's lovely and luminously wise account of his exploration of an unnamed island in the Pacific Northwest.

Front Jacket

Here is Nelson's luminously wise account of his exploration of an unnamed island in the Pacific Northwest. This book revises our own relationship with nature, allowing us to observe it and also to participate in it with reverence and a sense of wonder.
ISBN9780679732396
Author Richard Nelson
PublisherVintage
GenreHobbies & interests
FormatPaperback
PublishedApril 1991
LanguageENG- English
Pages304
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Richard Nelson's many plays include Illyria; The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family (Hungry, What Did You Expect?, and Women of a Certain Age); The Apple Family: Scenes from Life in the Country (That Hopey Changey Thing, Sweet and Sad, and Sorry, Regular Singing); Nikolai and the Others; Goodnight Children Everywhere (Olivier Award for Best Play); Franny's Way; Some Americans Abroad; Frank's Home; Two Shakespearean Actors; and James Joyce's The Dead (with Shaun Davey; Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical). He has also written for film, namely the screenplays for Hyde Park-on-Hudson and Ethan Frome. He is the recipient of the PEN/Laura Pels Master Playwright Award and an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is an Honorary Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

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