One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder
Hummingbird hearts, a son faulty one, and long sentences written by a man who knew he was running out of time to stop.
Essays gathered shortly before Doyle died of a brain tumour at sixty, on hummingbird hearts, his son faulty one, basketball, and the ordinary astonishments he made a career of noticing. The sentences run long deliberately, as though stopping would mean agreeing to something he would rather not.
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Not long before his untimely death by an aggressive brain tumor, Brian Doyle — who described himself as “a muddle and a conundrum shuffling slowly along the road, gaping in wonder, trying to just see and say what is” — took up these immense and eternal questions in what became his posthumous essay collection One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder (public library).
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