Description: Fire and Stone : Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?, Paperback by Long, Priscilla, ISBN 0820350443, ISBN-13 9780820350448, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US <p>The questions that drive Priscilla Long&;s <i>Fire and Stone</i> are the questions asked by the painter Paul Gauguin in the title of his 1897 painting: <i>Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? </i>These questions look beyond everyday trivialities to ponder the essence of our origins.<br><br>Using her own story as a touchstone, Long explores our human roots and how they shape who we are today. Her personal history encompasses childhood as an identical twin on a dairy farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland; the turmoil, social change, and music of the 1960s; the suicide of a sister; and a life in art in the Pacific Northwest. Here, memoir extends the threads of the writer&;s individual and very personal life to science, to history, and to ancestors, both literary and genetic, back to the Neanderthals.<br><br>Long uses profoundly poetic personal essays to draw larger connections and to ask compelling questions about identity. Framed by four distinctive sections, <i>Fire and Stone</i> transcends genre and evolves into a sweeping elegy on what it means to be human.</p>
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Book Title: Fire and Stone : Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
Number of Pages: 232 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2016
Topic: Natural History, General, Literary, American / General, Essays
Genre: Literary Criticism, Social Science, Science, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections
Item Weight: 10.6 Oz
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Priscilla Long
Book Series: Crux: the Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
