Elisabeth Tova Bailey
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Additional translations are forthcoming in French (Autrément Litteratures), Japanese (Asukashinsha), simplified Chinese (Cheers Publishing) and complex Chinese (Walkers).
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"Who would ever guess that the reward for pausing to look at a mollusc could be so profound? Elisabeth Tova Bailey’s book makes us see the natural world afresh." —Tim Flannery "Scientists and literary critics on both sides of the Atlantic are enraptured by [Bailey’s] memoir . . . to read [this book] is to experience . . . a sensation of stepping into an altogether more enchanted realm . . . [Bailey] closes the half-billion year evolutionary gap between snail and human with rare precision and humor . . ." —Courier Mail, Brisbane, Australia _____________________________________________________________________________________ 
"This is an entrancing record of a spiral love, one which grows from the delicate devotion the author feels for a snail-companion, out into the widest whorls of biophilia." — Jay Griffiths "A finely-crafted eulogy to a common woodland snail and a moving endorsement of the human spirit." —Sir John Lister-Kaye, naturalist, Scotland "[A] masterpiece."—The Independent _____________________________________________________________________________________ U.S. Large Print Edition: Center Point Large Print books, March 2011. The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating was launched in the U.S. by Algonquin Books on August 24, 2010. |
