Into Woods

by Bill Roorbach

Overview

Into Woods is an exuberant, profound, and often wonderfully funny account of ten years in the life of author Bill Roorbach. A paean to nature, love, family, and place, it begins with his honeymoon on a wine farm in France's Loire Valley and closes with the birth of his daughter and he and his wife's return to their beloved Maine. These essays blend journalism, memoir, personal narrative, nature writing, cultural criticism, and insight into a flowing narrative of place, a meditation on being and belonging, love and death, wonder and foreboding.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608935130
Publisher:	Down East Books
Publication date:	09/15/2015
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	190
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Bill Roorbach is the author of the O’Henry Award-winning story collection Big Bend, as well of the novels The Smallest Color, Life among Giants, and The Remedy for Love. He also wrote the memoir, Summerswith Juliet and the essay collection Into Woods. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including TheAtlantic, Harper’s Monthly, Granta, and the NewYork Times magazine. He lives with his family in Farmington, Maine.

Table of Contents

1. Honeymoon
2. Into Woods
3. Spirits
4. Shitdiggers, Mudflats, and the Worm Men of Maine
5. You Have Given This Boy Life
6. Vortex
7. Duck Day Afternoon
8. Birthday
9. Scioto Blues
10. Sky Pond
11. My Life as a Move

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"In these vigorous, boisterous, and earthy essays, Bill Roorbach gives us a shrewdly candid self-portrait, while telling us reams about what it means to be a man. He writes confidently and confidingly, elegantly, and articulately." — Phillip Lopate "Here is a narrator who makes you glad to be alive, giddy to be in his presence, grateful to love friends and family and dogs with generosity and abandon, to show tenderness and thus be saved by strangers." — Melanie Rae Thon