Down East Books
Pages: 300
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Trim: 5¾ x 8¼
978-1-60893-393-8 • Paperback • December 2014 • $15.95 • (£11.99)
978-1-60893-394-5 • eBook • December 2014 • $9.99 • (£7.99)
Bill Roorbach is the author of the O.Henry Award-winning story collection Big Bend, as well of the novels The Smallest Color and Life Among Giants, now in development for an HBO series. He also wrote the memoir, Summers with Juliet and the essay collection Into Woods. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including the Atlantic, Harper's Monthly, Granta, and the New York Times Magazine. He lives with his family in Farmington, Maine.
Roorbach falls, for me, into that small category of writers whose every book I must read, then reread.
— Jay Parini, author of The Last Station
Here is a narrator who makes you glad to be alive, giddy to be in his presence, grateful to love friends and family and dogs with generosity and abandon, to show tenderness and thus be saved by strangers,
— Melanie Rae Thon, author of "First, Body"
Roorbach has a knack for tapping into deep undercurrents and bringing them to the surface with the least amount of fanfare or fuss.
— Los Angeles Times
There is poetry in Bill Roorbach's prose...his lyricism touched lightly with irony.
— Boston Globe
Bill Roorbach is a brilliant guide to the natural world. Gracefully combining deep knowledge, lyrical description and wry humor, his writing draws you out of your chair and into a world of streams and meadows and trees and bugs and beavers. And it makes you want to stay there.
— The Seattle Times
There are other autobiographical books about Maine, but Roorbach's writing is so compelling, his eye for the human condition so keen, that this is in a class of its own.
— Library Journal, Starred Review
A celebration of life...deft and evocative, making small adventures loom large.
— Kirkus
With a voice as pure and true as the stream itself, Roorbach limns a lyrical yet precise portrait of the life teeming along one deceptively simple yet richly essential part of the natural world.
— Booklist
You'll be homesick for a place you've never visited.
— Playboy
While genuine in his appreciation of Nature, Roorbach is the antithesis of the smug and self-absorbed Naturalist...Temple Stream is a moving book: thoughtful, precise, about much more than flora.
— The Believer
• Winner, Washington Book Publishers 2015 Book Design & Effectiveness Competition: Illustrated Cover (Second Place)