Second Nature

Scenes from a World Remade

Second Nature
Nathaniel Rich
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Hardback
h210 x 137mm - 304pg
8 Apr 2021 US
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9780374106034
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We live at a time in which scientists race to reanimate extinct beasts, our most essential ecosystems require monumental engineering projects to survive, chicken breasts grow in test tubes, and multinational corporations conspire to poison the blood of every living creature. No rock, leaf, or cubic foot of air on Earth has escaped humanity' s clumsy signature. The old distinctions-between natural and artificial, dystopia and utopia, science fiction and science fact-have blurred, losing all meaning. We inhabit an uncanny landscape of our own creation. From Odds Against Tomorrow to Losing Earth to the film Dark Waters (adapted from the first chapter of this book), Nathaniel Rich' s stories have come to define the way we think of contemporary ecological narrative. In Second Nature, he asks what it means to live in an era of terrible responsibility. The question is no longer, How do we return to the world that we' ve lost? It is, What world do we want to create in its place?
Rich' s elegy to a planet he likens to a critical care patient is lyrical, erudite, and devastating. . . [His] investigation of crimes against nature and the people who are trying to stop them is alarming, enlightening, and necessary. --O Magazine [A] vividly reported survey . . . Frightening but with an undercurrent of humor, Rich' s study is packed with moving insight. --Publishers Weekly
Nathaniel Rich is the author of Losing Earth and the novels King Zeno, Odds Against Tomorrow, and The Mayor' s Tongue. He is a writer at large for The New York Times Magazine and a regular contributor to The Atlantic and The New York Review of Books. He lives in New Orleans.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780374106034
Published: 8 Apr 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Farrar Straus Giroux
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Format: Hardback
Height: 210mm
Width: 137mm
Pages: 304

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