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Item number:110040896126
Item location:Ant Arbor, MI, United States
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Author: Diane AckermanFormat: --
Publisher: Random House IncEdition: 1
ISBN: 0679448772ISBN-13: 9780679448778
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Diane Ackerman writes vividly of the hours she has spent volunteering at a suicide prevention center taking calls and counseling people in crisis.

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Length:305 pages
Height:9.5 in.
Width:6.5 in.
Thickness:1.2 in.
Weight:19.2 oz.

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This astonishing book by the prizewinning, bestselling author of A Natural History of the Senses reveals Ackerman's parallel lives as an observer of the wildlife in her garden and as a telephone crisis counselor. "(Ackerman) brings a luminous and illuminating combination of sensuality, science, and speculation to whatever she considers."--San Francisco Examiner.

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"From Ackerman come these graceful, canny reflections on her hours spent fielding calls at a suicide prevention center....Ackerman's voracious imagination and curiosity find her making forays into biochemistry and the artistic temperament, the weather and Walt Whitman, bicycling and skiing, bringing them all to bear on her shifts at the crisis center. And it is not surprising that, as a writer of luminous essays on natural history, she is able to convincingly free-associate between the emotional geography of animals...and humans..."
Brailovsky 

"Counselling the desperate, [Ackerman] concentrates all her senses through that tenuous telephone wire, and when she recounts the stories she hears in an elegant plain style, less has never been more."
McNeely 


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Product Category : Books
ISBN : 0679448772
Title : Slender Thread:, A
Authors : Diane Ackerman
Binding : Hardcover
Publisher : Random House
Publication Date : 1996-12-17
Pages : 305
Signed : False
First Edition : False
Dust Jacket : True
Jacket Condition : VERY GOOD
List Price (MSRP) : 24.00
Height : 9.5000 inches
Width : 6.5000 inches
Length : 1.2500 inches
Weight : 1.2000 pounds
Keywords : General, Suicide, Social Services & Welfare, Mental Illness, New Age, Inspirational, Nature Writing, Internal Medicine, Crisis Management
Condition : Very Good
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