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Interspersed with this archive of place words are biographical essays in which Macfarlane writes of his favorite authors who have paid close attention to the natural world and who embody in their own work the huge richness of place language—from Barry Lopez and John Muir to Nan Shepard

They found instead their worst enemy

In this new biography

In noir master Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye

1982, Janine french Vali must carry on withJock McLeish a divorced, alcoholic, middle aged security installer spends a night in a Scottish hotel room drinking, fantasizing about violent sex and contemplating suicide. As his fantasies spiral, memories of personal failures and political disillusionment surface, forcing him to confront the emotional wreckage of his life. Darkly comic and formally experimental, Alasdair Grays novel is a raw, unflinching portrait of male inadequacy, power, and self