A Slender Thread

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ISBN: 9780679771333 | 0679771336
Cover: Trade Paper
Copyright: 3/31/1998

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his astonishing book by the prizewinning, bestselling author of A Natural History of the Senses reveals Ackerman's parallel lives as an observer of the wildlife in her garden and as a telephone crisis counselor. "(Ackerman) brings a luminous and illuminating combination of sensuality, science, and speculation to whatever she considers."--San Francisco Examiner. From the Hardcover edition.

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Preface	p. 3
Borrowed Hearts	p. 5
Squirrels, and the Dark Night of the Soul	p. 26
All the Bright Catastrophes	p. 45
A Mass of Life	p. 62
The Golden Apples of the Sun, and Silver Apples of the Moon	p. 81
The Shape of Fire	p. 95
The Heart's Asylum	p. 112
The Darkness of Our Days	p. 135
So Glory Descends	p. 162
The Orators of August	p. 188
The World Unwound	p. 208
Desperate Measures	p. 236
A Last of Last Times	p. 253
Before the Dawn	p. 264
Close Calls	p. 291
Notes and Acknowledgments	p. 295
Index	p. 297
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A Slender Thread

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