Gretel Ehrlich
Autore di The Solace of Open Spaces
Sull'Autore
Gretel Ehrlich is the author of "A Match to the Heart" among other works of nonfiction, fiction & poetry. She divides her time between California & Wyoming. (Bowker Author Biography)
Fonte dell'immagine: Gretel Ehrlich @Pantheon Books
Opere di Gretel Ehrlich
This Autumn Morning [article] 1 copia
A Journey Home 1 copia
Opere correlate
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Collaboratore — 452 copie
The Ends of the Earth: An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic (2007) — Collaboratore — 131 copie
Antaeus No. 64/65, Spring/Autumn 1990 - Twentieth Anniversary Issue (1990) — Collaboratore — 12 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- EHRLICH, Gretel
- Data di nascita
- 1946-01-21
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Santa Barbara, California, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Hawi, Hawaii, USA
Wyoming, USA
Montana, USA - Istruzione
- Bennington College
University of California, Los Angeles (Film School) - Attività lavorative
- travel writer
novelist
non-fiction writer
poet
essayist
filmmaker - Relazioni
- Conan, Neal (husband)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Whiting Writers' Award (1987);National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities grant, a Whiting Foundation Award, A Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Harold B Vurcell Award at the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She and the theatre director, Martha Clarke were awarded a Bellagio Fellowship.
- Breve biografia
- Gretel Ehrlich was born on a horse ranch near Santa Barbara, California. She worked in film for ten years, then began writing fulltime in 1978 after the death of a loved one. She had been filming on a 250,000 acre sheep and cattle ranch in northern Wyoming at the time, and there she stayed. 1991 was the year Ehrlich was hit by lightning while taking a walk on her ranch. She was hospitalized and severly debilitated for several years. Having recovered from her lightning injuries, Ehrlich began traveling. In 1993, she went to the foothills of the Himalayas in western China. Intending to write a book on the four sacred Buddhist in China, she was so appalled by the stripping away of culture and humanity during the Cultural Revolution, that she found herself writing something altogether different. That same year, Ehrlich also began traveling north to Greenland. “I wanted to get above treeline, to see nothing but horizons. Once there, she fell in love with the Inuit people and traveled with subsistence hunters by dogsled for months at a time out on the sea ice.
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The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich is a set of descriptive essays about the American West, in particular Wyoming, and the ranching way of life. My husband and I spent many of our holidays on driving trips throughout the west, and Wyoming, was one of our favorite destinations so I loved reading about the natural beauty and isolation of this magnificent state. Ehrlich was grieving the death of her partner when she came to Wyoming and found this a perfect place to recover. As a poet and a filmmaker she has both the eye and the words to paint a vivid picture of the place and the way of life that she found there.
There are twelve essays that comprise the book, each one dealing with a different aspect or adventure that she experienced. Sheep herding, attending rodeo, or Indigenous events all come to life under her pen. Personally my favorite essays were the ones that found her describing the scenery, nature and unexpected weather conditions. From the Wind River to the Big Horn Mountains, this is a special place and she captures the uniqueness of both the land and the people who live there with depth and humor.
Both meditative and descriptive, The Solace of Open Spaces explores a region of breathtaking mountains and colorful high plains. The author knows Wyoming and we, the readers, are invited to visit and soak up these open spaces for a short while.… (altro)
There are twelve essays that comprise the book, each one dealing with a different aspect or adventure that she experienced. Sheep herding, attending rodeo, or Indigenous events all come to life under her pen. Personally my favorite essays were the ones that found her describing the scenery, nature and unexpected weather conditions. From the Wind River to the Big Horn Mountains, this is a special place and she captures the uniqueness of both the land and the people who live there with depth and humor.
Both meditative and descriptive, The Solace of Open Spaces explores a region of breathtaking mountains and colorful high plains. The author knows Wyoming and we, the readers, are invited to visit and soak up these open spaces for a short while.… (altro)
Some of the best writing of this genre. Her phrases resonate.
That high western essay. A classic I am sure I first came across at my grandparents in Alma, this copy was picked up at The Dusty Bookshelf in Lawrence a dozen years ago. Finally read over the course of a day when I was feeling low. I will never again care for stock, but could sure use the hermitage now and again. Mine will be out on the Olympic Peninsula, hopefully sooner than later...
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- Opere
- 34
- Opere correlate
- 24
- Utenti
- 2,492
- Popolarità
- #10,292
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 50
- ISBN
- 74
- Lingue
- 7
- Preferito da
- 10
The title is a bit misleading as Ehrlich talks mostly about people and meaningful connections she made. I especially liked how she dismantled the stereotypical romanticized image of a "Marlboro man" by describing real cowboys and women among them.
The language is beautiful. I underlined many memorable sentences and passages. There were a lot of descriptions I didn't care for much, esp. related to animal husbandry, taking care of sheep, cattle, and horses, but I didn't mind.… (altro)