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001			on1396251853
003			OCoLC
005			20250424003115.0
008			230908s2023 nyua 000 edeng d
020			_a1954118465 _q(hardcover) : _c$32.00
020			_a9781954118461 _q(hardcover) : _c$32.00
035			_a(OCoLC)1396251853
040			_aYDX _beng _erda _cYDX _dABJ _dVP@
041	1		_aeng _heng _beng
082	0	4	_a508 _223
100	1		_aRenkl, Margaret, _eauthor. _9974
245	1	4	_aThe comfort of crows : _ba backyard year / _cMargaret Renkl ; art by Billy Renkl.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bSpiegel & Grau, _c[2023]
264		4	_c�2023
300			_axvi, 269 pages : _bcolor illustrations ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_a"A luminous book that traces the passing of seasons, personal and natural." -- Dust jacket.
520			_a"In The Comfort of Crows, Margaret Renkl presents a literary devotional: fifty-two chapters that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a year. As we move through the seasons -- from a crow spied on New Year's Day, its resourcefulness and sense of community setting a theme for the year, to the lingering bluebirds of December, revisiting the nest box they used in spring -- what develops is a portrait of joy and grief: joy in the ongoing pleasures of the natural world, and grief over winters that end too soon and songbirds that grow fewer and fewer. Along the way, we also glimpse the changing rhythms of a human life. Grown children, unexpectedly home during the pandemic, prepare to depart once more. Birdsong and night-blooming flowers evoke generations past. The city and the country where Renkl raised her family transform a little more with each passing day. And the natural world, now in visible flux, requires every ounce of hope and commitment from the author-and from us. For, as Renkl writes, 'radiant things are bursting forth in the darkest places, in the smallest nooks and deepest cracks of the hidden world.' With fifty-two original color artworks by the author's brother, Billy Renkl, The Comfort of Crows is a lovely and deeply moving book from a cherished observer of the natural world." -- _cPublisher's description.
600	1	0	_aRenkl, Margaret. _9974
650		0	_aNature. _9975
650		0	_aNatural world. _9976
650		0	_aSeasons. _9977
655		7	_aEssays. _2lcgft _9978
655		7	_aAutobiographies. _2lcgft _9166
700	1		_aRenkl, Billy, _eillustrator. _9979
942			_2ddc _cBKTMP
949			_a814.6 RENKL _wDEWEY _i0000188177828 _hKC-ANBN-RZ _p$32.00
999			_c280 _d280