{"product_id":"the-everybody-ensemble-donkeys-essays-and-other-pandemoniums-paperback","title":"The Everybody Ensemble: Donkeys, Essays, and Other Pandemoniums - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAmy Leach\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn short, gloriously inventive essays, the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhiting Award-winning author \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmy Leach's \u003ci\u003eThe Everybody Ensemble\u003c\/i\u003e invites us to see and celebrate our oddball, interconnected world\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHumans, please turn your guns into kazoos.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAre you feeling dismay, despair, disillusion? Need a break from the ho-hum, the hopeless, and the hurtful? Feel certain that there's a version of our world that doesn't break down into tiny categories of alliance but brings everybody together into one clattering, sometimes discordant but always welcoming chorus of glorious pandemonium? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmy Leach, the celebrated author of the transcendent \u003ci\u003eThings That Are\u003c\/i\u003e, invites you into \u003ci\u003eThe Everybody Ensemble\u003c\/i\u003e, an effervescent tonic of a book. These short, wildly inventive essays are filled with praise songs, poetry, ingenious critique, soul-lifting philosophy, music theory, and whimsical but scientific trips into nature. Here, you will meet platypuses, Tycho Brahe and his moose, barnacle goslings, medieval mystics, photosynthetic bacteria, and a wholly fresh representation of the biblical Job. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEqual parts call to reason and to joy, this book is an irrepressible celebration of our oddball, interconnected world. \u003ci\u003eThe Everybody Ensemble\u003c\/i\u003e delivers unexpected wisdom and a wake-up call that sounds from within.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmy Leach\u003c\/b\u003e grew up in Texas and earned her MFA from the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Essays\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Science and Nature Writing\u003c\/i\u003e, and numerous other publications, including \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Public Space\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOrion\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award, and a Pushcart Prize. Her first book was \u003ci\u003eThings That Are\u003c\/i\u003e. Leach lives in Montana.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.6 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 08, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51759425192224,"sku":"9781250858856","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0af3b355d711593dd809316a38e7edd4.webp?v=1780152271","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-everybody-ensemble-donkeys-essays-and-other-pandemoniums-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}