{"product_id":"9781504042888","title":"The Solace of Open Spaces: Essays","description":"\u003cb\u003eThese transcendent, lyrical essays on the West announced Gretel Ehrlich as a major American writer—“Wyoming has found its Whitman” (Annie Dillard).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Poet and filmmaker Gretel Ehrlich went to Wyoming in 1975 to make the first in a series of documentaries when her partner died. Ehrlich stayed on and found she couldn’t leave. \u003ci\u003eThe Solace of Open Spaces \u003c\/i\u003eis a chronicle of her first years on “the planet of Wyoming,” a personal journey into a place, a feeling, and a way of life.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Ehrlich captures both the otherworldly beauty and cruelty of the natural forces—the harsh wind, bitter cold, and swiftly changing seasons—in the remote reaches of the American West. She brings depth, tenderness, and humor to her portraits of the peculiar souls who also call it home: hermits and ranchers, rodeo cowboys and schoolteachers, dreamers and realists. Together, these essays form an evocative and vibrant tribute to the life Ehrlich chose and the geography she loves.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Originally written as journal entries addressed to a friend, \u003ci\u003eThe Solace of Open Spaces \u003c\/i\u003eis raw, meditative, electrifying, and uncommonly wise. In prose “as expansive as a Wyoming vista, as charged as a bolt of prairie lightning,” Ehrlich explores the magical interplay between our interior lives and the world around us (\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174404964592,"sku":"9781504042888","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781504042888_p0.jpg?v=1769897887","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781504042888","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}