{"product_id":"9780807085394","title":"In the Company of Light","description":"\"One of the most daring of contemporary writers in the genre.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Norton Anthology of Nature Writing\u003cp\u003e\"[Hay's] books about Cape Cod belong in the company of Thoreau, Donald Culross Peattie, Henry Beston, and Rachel Carson.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Robert Taylor, The Boston Globe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Hay's new book, published in his 83rd year, is autumnal in spirit and in substance. . . . The essence of this enterprise is a kind of prayer, eloquent and deeply felt.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Richard Todd, Civilization\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[Hay] is, to my mind, without question this country's greatest living nature writer. . . . He writes out of such a profoundly poetic impulse that he cannot help but produce prose of a high literary order.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Robert Finch, The Cape Codder\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Hay loses himself in details, describing the minute play of light through grasses, the reflection of a water bug on the rocks of a stream bottom, the fungi on fallen trees that begin to glow with an eerie luminescence. . . . [He] is not only the observer of what most of us don't see, but of what we may never get a chance to see.\"\u003cbr\u003e-David Cline, Hartford Advocate\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In the Company of Light shares with considerable humility the well-honed insights of a man rich in the wisdom of age and observation of nature.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Nancy Grape, Maine Sunday Telegram\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Hay is author of The Great Beach (winner of the John Burroughs Prize), The Run, and A Beginner's Faith in Things Unseen, among many other books. He lives in Brewster, on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, and in Bremen, Maine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47021610991856,"sku":"9780807085394","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780807085394_p0.jpg?v=1763739939","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780807085394","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}