{"product_id":"9781894078986","title":"The Grey Islands","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNOW AVAILABLE IN A NEW EDITION - The Grey Islands: Brick Books Classics 2, ISBN 9781771313452 - published in 2015 by Brick Books.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince its first publication in 1985, \u003cem\u003eThe Grey Islands\u003c\/em\u003e has become a classic of Canadian wilderness writing to set beside the works of Thoreau, Annie Dillard and Aldo Leopold. Using a broad range of forms and styles - lyric, anecdote, field notes, documents and pseudo-documents, ghost story, tall tale - Steffler relates the story of one man's pilgrimage to a remote island of Newfoundland's northern peninsula. Often comic, and always deeply passionate and sensuous, \u003cem\u003eThe Grey Islands\u003c\/em\u003e tells of the sharpening of perceptions whetted by solitude, wind and rock, and of the pilgrim's people - living and dead - who have striven to exist under its harsh regime. As in his other books, like \u003cem\u003eThat Night We Were Ravenous\u003c\/em\u003e or his acclaimed novel \u003cem\u003eThe Afterlife of George Cartwright\u003c\/em\u003e, Steffler's writing delivers the bite of raw experience and embraces existence at the edge in all its terror and beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brick Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47151304999152,"sku":"9781894078986","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781894078986_p0.jpg?v=1763610484","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781894078986","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}