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McPhee, John

 
9780374272418: Table of Contents
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ISBN 10: 0374272417 ISBN 13: 9780374272418
Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1985

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In eight pieces of highly varying length written between 1981 and 1984, McPhee describes the arrival of telephones in a village near the Arctic Circle, the migrations to New Jersey of wild bears seeking a better life, a day with Senator Bill Bradley, and more

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John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. Also in 1965, he published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has written nearly 30 books, including Oranges (1967), Coming into the Country (1977), The Control of Nature (1989), The Founding Fish (2002), Uncommon Carriers (2007), and Silk Parachute (2011). Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) and The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science. McPhee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977. In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Verlag
Farrar Straus & Giroux
Erscheinungsdatum
1985
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0374272417
ISBN 13 
9780374272418
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