We Loved It All :A Memory of Life
We Loved It All :A Memory of Life
hardback
Published:
2 April, 2024
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Prizes
Long-listed for Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association Reading the West Book Award 2025
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781324073659 |
| ISBN10 | 1324073659 |
| Number Of Pages | 272 |
| Item Weight | 457 g |
| Product Dimensions | 163 x 239 x 25 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | WW Norton & Co |
| Format | hardback |
Media Reviews
"We have all been the beneficiary of Lydia Millet's eloquence and imagination through fiction. But now, she gives us a different kind of story, a story of stunning attention, truths, and urgency based on her own wild life. We Loved It All is an ode to the creatures we live among: finned, feathered, furred, scaled, and rooted. I needed this book to feel less alone in the world. I needed this book to believe in something deeper than hope. I loved this book because Lydia Millet's relationship with the natural world is its own joyous anthem of belonging. This is a rigorous, evocative, brilliant bow to life, even as the world burns. Please read this transformative anti-memoir that shows us a way forward with courageous love." -- Terry Tempest Williams, author of Erosion: Essays of Undoing
"I love reading Lydia Millet, delight in the pithy observations of her all-seeing eye, and I suspect her many admirers will be smitten with We Loved It All. This deep-time story of our immersion with Earth's wild creatures-and our hapless modern attempts to escape nature-is something different from her novels, but the Lydia Millet voice is fully present. I'm not sure there's a better educated enviro-activist, grounded-in-science approach to natural history out there." -- Dan Flores, best-selling author of Wild New World and Coyote America
"Magic words, beautiful thoughts, an altogether unique book that allows you to watch a gorgeous mind at work. There is, quite apart from the magic of her writing, not a single page where you won't learn something new. We Loved it All will leave you breathless." -- Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, author of Lost Companions and When Elephants Weeps
Author's Bio
Lydia Millet is the author of A Children’s Bible, a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times Top Ten book of the Year. Her first work of short fiction, Love in Infant Monkeys, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She lives outside Tucson, Arizona.