{"product_id":"9780679781417","title":"Winter Count","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Perfectly crafted. . . . [These] stories expand of their own accord, lingering in the mind the way intense light lingers in the retina.\"  —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Animals and landscapes have not had this weight, this precision, in American fiction since Hemingway's young heroes were fishing the streams of upper Michigan and Spain.\" —\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA flock of great blue herons descending through a snowstorm to the streets of New York. . . . A river in Nebraska disappearing mysteriously. . . . A ghostly herd of buffalo that sings a song of death. . . . A mystic who raises constellations of stones from the desert floor. . . . All these are to be found in \u003ci\u003eWinter Count\u003c\/i\u003e, the exquisite and rapturous collection by the National Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eArctic Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these resonant and unpredictable stories Barry Lopez proves that he is one of the most important and original writers at work in America today. With breathtaking skill and a few deft strokes he produces painfully beautiful scenes. Combining the real with the wondrous, he offers us a pure vision of people alive to the immediacy and spiritual truth of nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Powerful. . . . [Lopez] can steal your breath away.\" —\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Richly allusive, moving, compassionate, these stories celebrate the web of nature that holds the world together.\" \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47019836604656,"sku":"9780679781417","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780679781417_p0.jpg?v=1763609107","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780679781417","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}