{"product_id":"writing-from-the-center","title":"Writing from the Center","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eWriting from the Center\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eScott Russell Sanders\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780253211439\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eIndiana University Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1997\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e216\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\" . . . essays of substance and beauty, and they belong beside the work of Annie Dillard, Samuel Pickering, and Wendell Berry.\" --Library Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Sanders] eloquently expresses his love of the land and the responsibility he feels for preventing further erosion of our natural resources . . . \" --Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Skillfully written in a clear, unmannered style refreshingly devoid of irony and hollow cleverness, the author starts with everyday experiences and gleans from them larger truths.\" --The Christian Science Monitor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[These] essays are so good one is tempted to stand up and applaud after reading them. . . . Sanders is a modern day prospector who finds gems of spiritual meaning in both familiar and unusual places.\" --Body Mind Spirit\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWriting from the Center\u003c\/i\u003e is about one very fine writer's quest for a meaningful and moral life. Lannan Literary Award winner Scott Sanders (Secrets of the Universe, Staying Put, A Paradise of Bombs) seeks and describes a center that is geographical, emotional, artistic, and spiritual--and is rooted in place. The geography is midwestern, the impulses are universal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The earth needs fewer tourists and more inhabitants, it seems to me--fewer people who float about in bubbles of money and more people committed to knowing and tending their home ground.\" --Scott Russell Sanders, from the book\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Writing from the Center | Scott Russell Sanders | Paperback | 9780253211439 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks H 1747883","offer_id":48855868080280,"sku":"1747883","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71oZnX5yjAL.jpg?v=1775567229","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/writing-from-the-center","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}