Shopping for Porcupine, the nonfiction follow-up to his debut novel Ordinary Wolves, is an honest and uncompromising portrait of this landscape, and of Kantner's life there. Equal parts memoir, nature writing and personal essay, Kantner's writing leaves the reader with a rich sense of his own history as well as the harsh beauty of Arctic Alaska and the issues it faces in a changing society. · Shopping for Porcupine: A Life in Arctic Alaska. by. Seth Kantner (Goodreads Author) · Rating details · ratings · 89 reviews. His story begins with the arrival of his father, Howard Kantner, to the remote Arctic of the s and ends with him as a grown man settled in the same landscape/5(). · “ Shopping for Porcupine is a book that weaves between worry and worship, to borrow a phrase from its author, Seth Kantner. The autobiographical essays collected here offer a glimpse of Kantner’s life in his native north Alaska, portraying a harsh landscape at once torn by progress and brimming with wild blessings.” — High Country NewsBrand: Milkweed Editions.
Shopping for porcupine: a life in arctic Alaska. Author: Kantner, Seth, I live in a city with over million residents (and fewer trees), almost 5, miles from Alaska, yet when I read the Seth Kanter's memoir Shopping for Porcupine: A Life in Arctic Alaska, I felt that the Alaskan-born, -bred and -based author knew exactly who I was, unerringly how I was feeling, and precisely what I felt about life in. SHOPPING FOR PORCUPINE A Life in Arctic Alaska Collection of Essays and Photographs by Seth Kantner Published by Milkweed Editions by Griselda Steiner. Inherent in the title of Seth Kantner's second book "Shopping for Porcupine" is a subtle irony. If it were "Hunting for Porcupine" the meaning would be clear, but politically.
Shopping for Porcupine: A Life in Arctic Alaska. by. Seth Kantner (Goodreads Author) · Rating details · ratings · 89 reviews. His story begins with the arrival of his father, Howard Kantner, to the remote Arctic of the s and ends with him as a grown man settled in the same landscape. Shopping for Porcupine: A Life in Arctic Alaska: Kantner, Seth: Books - www.doorway.ru Growing up in the Arctic, pragmatic, simple questions had useful answers. And frostbite was a way of life. In Shopping for Porcupine, Seth Kantner returns to the setting of his debut novel, Ordinary Wolves, with a fascinating account of life on North America’s last frontier. In these essays and photographs, Kantner chronicles the “by-hand times so recently passed,” watching through the lens of his life the transformation of the Arctic as mainstream America moves relentlessly north.
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