#1 SEATTLE TIMES BESTSELLER
A playful and shifting ebook of essays via a “born storyteller” (Seattle Times) who invitations us into the excellent and transcendent moments of the everyday
When Brian Doyle kicked the bucket on the age of sixty after a bout with mind most cancers, he left in the back of a cult-like following of faithful readers who regard his writing as one of the vital perfect-stored secrets and techniques of the twenty-first century. Doyle writes with a lovely feel of surprise in regards to the sanctity of on a regular basis issues, and approximately love and connection in all their bureaucracy: non secular love, cohesion, romantic love, or even the affection of a 9-foot sturgeon.
At a second whilst the arena can every so often really feel darker than ever, Doyle’s writing, which repeatedly inspires the humor or even bliss that existence offers, is a balm. His essays be capable of in finding, over and over, beautiful attractiveness within the quotidian, whether or not it is the awe of a kid the primary time she hears a river, or a husband’s whiskers that a grieving widow misses seeing in her sink each morning. Thru Doyle’s eyes, not anything is uninteresting.
David James Duncan sums up Doyle’s sensibilities perfect in his advent to the gathering: “Brian Doyle lived the excitement of bearing day-to-day witness to quiet glories hidden in folks, puts and creatures of very little dimension, renown, or industrial price, and he introduced inimitably playful or hovering or aching or heartfelt language to his tellings.” A existence’s paintings, One Lengthy River of Song invitations readers to revel in pleasure and sweetness in extraordinary moments that grow to be, underneath Doyle’s rapturous and exuberant gaze, bizarre.
