The Solace of Open Spaces

Essays

Nonfiction, Travel, United States, West, Science & Nature, Nature, Biography & Memoir
Cover of the book The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich, Open Road Media
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Gretel Ehrlich ISBN: 9781504042888
Publisher: Open Road Media Publication: February 21, 2017
Imprint: Open Road Media Language: English
Author: Gretel Ehrlich
ISBN: 9781504042888
Publisher: Open Road Media
Publication: February 21, 2017
Imprint: Open Road Media
Language: English

These transcendent, lyrical essays on the West announced Gretel Ehrlich as a major American writer—“Wyoming has found its Whitman” (Annie Dillard).

Poet and filmmaker Gretel Ehrlich went to Wyoming in 1975 to make the first in a series of documentaries when her partner died. Ehrlich stayed on and found she couldn’t leave. The Solace of Open Spaces is a chronicle of her first years on “the planet of Wyoming,” a personal journey into a place, a feeling, and a way of life.

Ehrlich captures both the otherworldly beauty and cruelty of the natural forces—the harsh wind, bitter cold, and swiftly changing seasons—in the remote reaches of the American West. She brings depth, tenderness, and humor to her portraits of the peculiar souls who also call it home: hermits and ranchers, rodeo cowboys and schoolteachers, dreamers and realists. Together, these essays form an evocative and vibrant tribute to the life Ehrlich chose and the geography she loves.

Originally written as journal entries addressed to a friend, The Solace of Open Spaces is raw, meditative, electrifying, and uncommonly wise. In prose “as expansive as a Wyoming vista, as charged as a bolt of prairie lightning,” Ehrlich explores the magical interplay between our interior lives and the world around us (Newsday).

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

These transcendent, lyrical essays on the West announced Gretel Ehrlich as a major American writer—“Wyoming has found its Whitman” (Annie Dillard).

Poet and filmmaker Gretel Ehrlich went to Wyoming in 1975 to make the first in a series of documentaries when her partner died. Ehrlich stayed on and found she couldn’t leave. The Solace of Open Spaces is a chronicle of her first years on “the planet of Wyoming,” a personal journey into a place, a feeling, and a way of life.

Ehrlich captures both the otherworldly beauty and cruelty of the natural forces—the harsh wind, bitter cold, and swiftly changing seasons—in the remote reaches of the American West. She brings depth, tenderness, and humor to her portraits of the peculiar souls who also call it home: hermits and ranchers, rodeo cowboys and schoolteachers, dreamers and realists. Together, these essays form an evocative and vibrant tribute to the life Ehrlich chose and the geography she loves.

Originally written as journal entries addressed to a friend, The Solace of Open Spaces is raw, meditative, electrifying, and uncommonly wise. In prose “as expansive as a Wyoming vista, as charged as a bolt of prairie lightning,” Ehrlich explores the magical interplay between our interior lives and the world around us (Newsday).

More books from Open Road Media

Cover of the book Boswell by Gretel Ehrlich
Cover of the book The Drop of the Dice by Gretel Ehrlich
Cover of the book Right You Are, Mr. Moto by Gretel Ehrlich
Cover of the book The Lifeguard by Gretel Ehrlich
Cover of the book Blood Roots by Gretel Ehrlich
Cover of the book Stitch by Gretel Ehrlich
Cover of the book Getting Nowhere by Gretel Ehrlich
Cover of the book Virgin's Holiday by Gretel Ehrlich
Cover of the book Flight of the Swan by Gretel Ehrlich
Cover of the book Jitterbug by Gretel Ehrlich
Cover of the book The Girl with the Persian Shawl by Gretel Ehrlich
Cover of the book Private Screening by Gretel Ehrlich
Cover of the book Children of the Wolf by Gretel Ehrlich
Cover of the book Bitching by Gretel Ehrlich
Cover of the book The Comedies by Gretel Ehrlich
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy