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Wolfish

The stories we tell about fear, ferocity and freedom

Erica Berry

Wolfish
Wolfish

Wolfish

The stories we tell about fear, ferocity and freedom

Erica Berry

Paperback | English
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Description

An original and probing debut work of non-fiction by a brilliant new writer, rooted in her years-long quest to study the cultural legacy of the wolf

Berry draws on a huge, rich depository of lupine literature. Wolfish is more than just an interesting exercise in cultural anthropology, though. The book's most obvious ancestor is Helen Macdonald's megahit of 2014, H Is for Hawk; it has that same intellectual range and a prose style that pushes [. . .] towards the poetic

A singular book. Reading this will invite you to examine your own walk through the world - hungry, afraid, brave

Startling in its scope, covering everything from fairy tales to domestic violence. This book should be required reading

Ranging far and wide culturally in the company of wolves . . . Berry segues effortlessly from the reintroduction of wolves at Yellowstone national park to Pliny the Elder's belief that wolves held pharmacological benefits for women's bodies

Singular . . . a book entirely its own

Explores the contours of human relationships - and what it means to be a woman - through this most familiar yet mysterious of creatures

Terror propels Erica Berry's exhilarating book . . . No matter where Berry weaves, she sniffs out fascinating insights. And she writes about it in clear, beautiful language

I devoured every startling, lyrical, haunting, yet all-too-familiar page of Wolfish. Such a stunning achievement, it left me feeling like one of the pack

An exhilarating book - intricate, thoughtful, and thick with connections

Berry's braided approach renders Wolfish both a vulnerable self-investigation and a wide-ranging exploration of fear - and, ultimately, an antidote to it. She makes a stirring case for walking alongside the symbolic wolf

Erica Berry is a writer based in her hometown of Portland, Oregon. She has an MFA from the University of Minnesota, where she was a College of Liberal Arts Fellow. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, New York Times, Yale Review, Orion, Atlantic, Outside Magazine and elsewhere. Winner of the Steinberg Essay Prize and the Kurt Brown Prize in non-fiction, she is an Oregon Book Award Finalist for creative non-fiction and has received fellowships and funding from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, the Wurlitzer Foundation, the Ucross Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources. She is currently an Associate Fellow at the Attic Institute for Arts and Letters and a writing instructor with Literary Arts in Portland.

@ericajberry | ericaberry.com

Specifications

  • Publisher
    Canongate Books
  • Pub date
    Feb 2024
  • Pages
    432
  • Theme
    Popular philosophy
  • Dimensions
    198 x 129 x 26 mm
  • Weight
    287 gram
  • EAN
    9781838854638
  • Paperback
    Paperback
  • Language
    English

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