The Nature Book: A Novel Tom Comitta by Tom Comitta 9781566896641, 1566896649 instant download after payment.

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PART SWEEPING EVOCATION OF EARTH’S RHYTHMS, PART LITERARY ARCHIVE, PART POST-HUMAN NOVEL, THE NATURE BOOK COLLAGES DESCRIPTIONS OF THE NATURAL WORLD INTO A SINGULAR SYMPHONIC PAEAN TO THE PLANET.

What does our nature writing say about us, & more urgently, what would it say without us? Tom Comitta investigates these questions & more in The Nature Book, a “literary supercut” that arranges writing about the natural world from three hundred works of fiction into a provocative re-envisioning of the novel. With fiction’s traditional background of flora & fauna brought to the fore, people & their structures disappear, giving center stage to animals, landforms, & weather patterns—honored in their own right rather than for their ambient role in human drama. The Nature Book challenges the confines of anthropocentrism with sublime artistic vision, traversing mountains, forests, oceans, & space to shift our attention toward the magnificently complex & interconnected world around us.

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Tom Comitta is the author of 〇, Airport Novella, & First Thought Worst Thought: Collected Books 2011–2014, a print & digital archive of forty “night novels,” art books, & poetry collections. Comitta’s fiction & essays have appeared in WIRED, Lit Hub, Electric Literature, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Believer, BOMB, & Best American Experimental Writing 2020. They live in Brooklyn.