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Ill Nature

By Joy Williams

Paperback | 9780375713637

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Most of us watch with mild concern the fast-disappearing wild spaces or the recurrence of pollution-related crises such as oil spills, toxic blooms in fertilizer-enriched forests, and violence both home and abroad. Joy Williams does more than watch. In this collection of condemnations and love letteContinue

Most of us watch with mild concern the fast-disappearing wild spaces or the recurrence of pollution-related crises such as oil spills, toxic blooms in fertilizer-enriched forests, and violence both home and abroad. Joy Williams does more than watch. In this collection of condemnations and love letters, revelations and cries for help, she brings to light the price of complacency with scathing wit and unexpected humor. Sounding the alarm over the disconnection from the natural world that our consumer culture has created, she takes on subjects as varied as the culling of elephants, electron-probed chimpanzees, vanishing wetlands, and the determination of American women to reproduce at any cost. Controversial, opinionated, at times exceptionally moving, Ill Nature is a clarion call for us to step out of our cars and cubicles, and do something to save our natural legacy.

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  • Ill Nature

    Review-a-Day Monday, August 6th, 2001 Ill Nature by Joy Williams A review by C. P. Farley Helen Caldicott once called the human race a "plague of rats upon the earth." For Joy Williams, if Ill Nature is any indication, this is an insult to rats. In t ... (read full critics)

    powells published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010

  • Ill Nature

    After reading Joy Williams' essay " The Case Against Babies," an indignant freshman at the University of Massachusetts asked: "Who does this woman think she is?" Many people may have such a reaction when they read "Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections o ... (read full critics)

    flakmag published on Tue, 31 Aug 2010

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Book Details

  • English Books
  • Paperback 192 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0375713638
  • ISBN-13: 9780375713637
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • Pub date: Jun 11, 2002
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
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