{"product_id":"2940150404069","title":"Field Guide","description":"Acting as himself in his essays and as various protagonists in his stories, the author shows us a hunger for a vanished world of natural splendor and ideal love. The essays are persuasively strong, rising to a thematic climax in the powerfully reasoned \"Environmentalist as Misanthrope.\" As for the matching antiphonal stories, they delight with their surprise endings and several-\"The Swimmer,\" \"The Bright Side,\" \"Assassinations\" -may best be described as small masterpieces. Both the essays and stories that comprise Field Guide share a feature I call \"page richness,\" a literary quality that causes the reader to savor certain pages before continuing toward the conclusion, as one might pause on a long journey to enjoy especially appealing vistas. Writers either have this ability or they don't. Steve Sherwood has it.","brand":"Angelina River Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47068385313008,"sku":"2940150404069","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940150404069_p0.jpg?v=1763744895","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940150404069","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}