Wild ride : (Record no. 86)

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008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
fixed length control field 941110s1995 nyu 000 0 eng
010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 94041167
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0060190531
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Original cataloging agency DLC
Transcribing agency DLC
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050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number AC5
Item number .L86 1995
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 081
Edition number 20
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Lowe, Bia,
Dates associated with a name 1950-
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Wild ride :
Remainder of title earthquakes, sneezes and other thrills /
Statement of responsibility, etc Bia Lowe.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 1st ed.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc New York, NY :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc HarperCollins,
Date of publication, distribution, etc c1995.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 179 p. ;
Dimensions 22 cm.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Allergy -- Wild Ride -- Posterity -- Our Kind -- Pet, Noun & Verb -- The Smell of Skunk -- Revelation -- Dancing Schools -- Bats -- Blood -- Drummer -- Mothers and Others, But Also Brothers -- Martian Sighting in Hollywood -- Essential Bodies -- Journey to the Center of the Earth -- Bugaboo in the American Museum of Natural History -- Cloven Hooves & Deviled Hams -- Wings -- About Being Awake While Driving from -- My High School Reunion.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc An utterly original mix of memoir, astute social observation, and bravura nature writing, this collection of personal essays marks the debut of a writer of extraordinary aplomb and brio.
520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Imagine the literary love child of Joan Didion and Walt Whitman and you have something approaching the heady blend of precision and elegy that is Bia Lowe. Casting a keen and knowing eye on a variety of life's conditions, Lowe takes readers on her minutely observed journeys.
520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Whether she's recounting the natural history of the pigeon or her stint as drummer for The Love Machine, an all-lesbian garage band, her gorgeous, unstintingly honest voice finds the universal in the particular, the sacred in the mundane.
520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Each essay reads like a conversation with an intimate friend: the world is a body to be explored, and Lowe maps it as closely as her own anatomy. An allergic sneeze yields a wide-ranging spray of gemlike observations about psychosomatic illness, the quality of the air in Los Angeles, and our disappointment with the frailties of our bodies. A skunk's trespass in a quiet garden breeds a meditation on the nature of fear, the persistence of memory, and the odor of a lover's infidelity.
520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc An essay on blood, the "salty bouillon" in our veins, prompts Lowe on an intimate journey from the "amniotic sea" to her adolescent wrestling with the legacy of her father's alcoholism. Swept along by the momentum of Wild Ride, one can only marvel at the subtlety of her eye, her innate ear for language, and the organic cohesion of this collection as a whole, which completely defies genre. This is virtuosic writing, sure to find a readership as broad as the author's vision.
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