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02222aam a22003378i 4500 001 989A5020F17F11EE82DF7F7D41ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240403010045 008 230914s2024 nyu 000 0 eng 010 $a 2023043166 020 $a 1324073659 020 $a 9781324073659 035 $a (OCoLC)1385294743 040 $a DNAL/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3563 I42175 Z46 2024 100 1 $a Millet, Lydia, $d 1968- $e author. 245 10 $a We loved it all : $b a memory of life / $c Lydia Millet. 264 1 $a New York : $b W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, $c [2024] 300 $a pages cm 520 $a "A personal evocation of the glory of nature, our vexed position in the animal kingdom, and the difficulty of adoring what we destroy. Acclaimed novelist Lydia Millet's first work of nonfiction, We Loved It All, is a genre-defying tour de force that makes an impassioned argument for people to see their emotional and spiritual lives as infinitely dependent on the lives of nonhuman beings. Drawing on a quarter-century of experience as an advocate for endangered species at the Center for Biological Diversity, Millet offers intimate portraits of what she calls "the others"-the extraordinary animals with whom we still share the world, along with those already lost. Humans, too, fill this book, as Millet touches on the lives of her world-traveling parents, fascinating partners and friends, and colorful relatives, from diplomats to nut farmers-all figures in the complex tapestry each of us weaves with the surrounding world. Written in the tradition of Annie Dillard or Robert Macfarlane, We Loved It All is an incantatory work that will appeal to anyone concerned about the future of life on earth-including our own"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Millet, Lydia, $d 1968- 650 0 $a Authors, American $y 20th Century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Human-animal relationships. 941 $a 4 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20240503010530.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20240502010449.0 952 $l CYPF706 $d 20240502010116.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240403012524.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=989A5020F17F11EE82DF7F7D41ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search