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Nights from This Galaxy by Wil Weitzel (2023, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherSarabande Books, Incorporated

ISBN-101956046062

ISBN-139781956046069

eBay Product ID (ePID)8057277513

Product Key Features

Book TitleNights from this Galaxy

Number of Pages200 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2023

TopicAnimals, Short Stories (Single Author)

GenreFiction

AuthorWil Weitzel

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight8.1 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

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LCCN2023-385296

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"These tales byWil Weitzel have the still, piney quietude you find in a forest when a gust ofair brings a scent rustling through. Then just like that they're over, andsomething special lingers. What magic, what beauty there is in these pages." --John Freeman, author of Wind, Trees "Ranging overnearly the whole globe, this taut gathering of gorgeously written stories,dense with apex predators--sharks, snakes, lions, lynxes, wolves, and, most ofall, people--makes a stately but impassioned case for the illimitable value ofthe natural world and our life-giving relationship to it. Weitzel combines anaturalist's knowledge and a tremendous observational facility to tell thetales of people who see themselves as part of fearsome nature, not set apartfrom it; who battle and defend animals with the same complex, fierce, andintertwined devotion with which they battle and defend the people in theirlives. Weitzel's voice is arrestingly original; his taciturn but movingdialogue has an oracular cadence, and he tunes in to a frequency that seems toreach up from the deepest depths of consciousness itself. Weitzel captures away of life--unflinching discipline and dignity, an innate sense of the honor ofwork, and something close to genuine humility--that is fighting ferociously tohang on, and that we desperately need for our spiritual survival. Weitzel ispart stylist and part shaman, but his work is all art, and art of the highestorder." --Matthew Thomas, New York Times -bestselling author of WeAre Not Ourselves "To read these stories is to feel the primalpull of wilderness, the absolute bewilderment of grief, the knife's edge thatcomes when we must choose this life or this other life altogether. I foundmyself leaning forward reading these stories--arrested, hyperaware, and,ultimately, awed. This is a first book to reckon with." --Joe Wilkins, authorof Fall Back Down When I Die and The Mountain and theFathers "Wil Weitzel has left me no choice but to burden him with comparisons to Chekov, Hemingway, and Munro. His stories are that kind of brilliant. Set in myriad vividly drawn geographic and socio-economic landscapes, his vast array of fully realized characters runs the gamut: young and old; innocent and evil; cross-species; predators and prey; brutal and tender; achingly sympathetic and unforgivably loathsome. The deliberate, intentional cruelties people inflict on one another (and on animal life) juxtaposed with inherent decency and kindness join forces to expose the mind, heart, and blood of humanity and the inhumanity of humankind. The prose is exquisite, but these stories are anything but pretty. Rather, they are the stuff of great literature: unflinching and beautiful. --Binnie Kirshenbaum, author of Rabbits For Food, "Spare, haunting. . . grimly beautiful." --Kirkus Reviews "These tales byWil Weitzel have the still, piney quietude you find in a forest when a gust ofair brings a scent rustling through. Then just like that they're over, andsomething special lingers. What magic, what beauty there is in these pages." --John Freeman, author of Wind, Trees "Ranging overnearly the whole globe, this taut gathering of gorgeously written stories,dense with apex predators--sharks, snakes, lions, lynxes, wolves, and, most ofall, people--makes a stately but impassioned case for the illimitable value ofthe natural world and our life-giving relationship to it. Weitzel combines anaturalist's knowledge and a tremendous observational facility to tell thetales of people who see themselves as part of fearsome nature, not set apartfrom it; who battle and defend animals with the same complex, fierce, andintertwined devotion with which they battle and defend the people in theirlives. Weitzel's voice is arrestingly original; his taciturn but movingdialogue has an oracular cadence, and he tunes in to a frequency that seems toreach up from the deepest depths of consciousness itself. Weitzel captures away of life--unflinching discipline and dignity, an innate sense of the honor ofwork, and something close to genuine humility--that is fighting ferociously tohang on, and that we desperately need for our spiritual survival. Weitzel ispart stylist and part shaman, but his work is all art, and art of the highestorder." --Matthew Thomas, New York Times -bestselling author of WeAre Not Ourselves "To read these stories is to feel the primalpull of wilderness, the absolute bewilderment of grief, the knife's edge thatcomes when we must choose this life or this other life altogether. I foundmyself leaning forward reading these stories--arrested, hyperaware, and,ultimately, awed. This is a first book to reckon with." --Joe Wilkins, authorof Fall Back Down When I Die and The Mountain and theFathers "Wil Weitzel has left me no choice but to burden him with comparisons to Chekov, Hemingway, and Munro. His stories are that kind of brilliant. Set in myriad vividly drawn geographic and socio-economic landscapes, his vast array of fully realized characters runs the gamut: young and old; innocent and evil; cross-species; predators and prey; brutal and tender; achingly sympathetic and unforgivably loathsome. The deliberate, intentional cruelties people inflict on one another (and on animal life) juxtaposed with inherent decency and kindness join forces to expose the mind, heart, and blood of humanity and the inhumanity of humankind. The prose is exquisite, but these stories are anything but pretty. Rather, they are the stuff of great literature: unflinching and beautiful. --Binnie Kirshenbaum, author of Rabbits For Food, "Spare, haunting. . . grimly beautiful." --Kirkus Reviews "[L]yrical and hypnotic. . . . This one ought to make a splash." --Publishers Weekly "These tales byWil Weitzel have the still, piney quietude you find in a forest when a gust ofair brings a scent rustling through. Then just like that they're over, andsomething special lingers. What magic, what beauty there is in these pages." --John Freeman, author of Wind, Trees "Ranging overnearly the whole globe, this taut gathering of gorgeously written stories,dense with apex predators--sharks, snakes, lions, lynxes, wolves, and, most ofall, people--makes a stately but impassioned case for the illimitable value ofthe natural world and our life-giving relationship to it. Weitzel combines anaturalist's knowledge and a tremendous observational facility to tell thetales of people who see themselves as part of fearsome nature, not set apartfrom it; who battle and defend animals with the same complex, fierce, andintertwined devotion with which they battle and defend the people in theirlives. Weitzel's voice is arrestingly original; his taciturn but movingdialogue has an oracular cadence, and he tunes in to a frequency that seems toreach up from the deepest depths of consciousness itself. Weitzel captures away of life--unflinching discipline and dignity, an innate sense of the honor ofwork, and something close to genuine humility--that is fighting ferociously tohang on, and that we desperately need for our spiritual survival. Weitzel ispart stylist and part shaman, but his work is all art, and art of the highestorder." --Matthew Thomas, New York Times -bestselling author of WeAre Not Ourselves "To read these stories is to feel the primalpull of wilderness, the absolute bewilderment of grief, the knife's edge thatcomes when we must choose this life or this other life altogether. I foundmyself leaning forward reading these stories--arrested, hyperaware, and,ultimately, awed. This is a first book to reckon with." --Joe Wilkins, authorof Fall Back Down When I Die and The Mountain and theFathers "Wil Weitzel has left me no choice but to burden him with comparisons to Chekov, Hemingway, and Munro. His stories are that kind of brilliant. Set in myriad vividly drawn geographic and socio-economic landscapes, his vast array of fully realized characters runs the gamut: young and old; innocent and evil; cross-species; predators and prey; brutal and tender; achingly sympathetic and unforgivably loathsome. The deliberate, intentional cruelties people inflict on one another (and on animal life) juxtaposed with inherent decency and kindness join forces to expose the mind, heart, and blood of humanity and the inhumanity of humankind. The prose is exquisite, but these stories are anything but pretty. Rather, they are the stuff of great literature: unflinching and beautiful. --Binnie Kirshenbaum, author of Rabbits For Food, Wil Weitzel has left me no choice but to burden him with comparisons to Chekov, Hemingway, and Munro. His stories are that kind of brilliant. Set in myriad vividly drawn geographic and socio-economic landscapes, his vast array of fully realized characters runs the gamut: young and old; innocent and evil; cross-species; predators and prey; brutal and tender; achingly sympathetic and unforgivably loathsome. The deliberate, intentional cruelties people inflict on one another (and on animal life) juxtaposed with inherent decency and kindness join forces to expose the mind, heart, and blood of humanity and the inhumanity of humankind. The prose is exquisite, but these stories are anything but pretty. Rather, they are the stuff of great literature: unflinching and beautiful. --Binnie Kirshenbaum, author of Rabbits For Food, Electric Literature , "The Must-Read Short Story Collections of 2023" "Spare, haunting. . . grimly beautiful." --Kirkus Reviews "[L]yrical and hypnotic. . . . This one ought to make a splash." --Publishers Weekly " Nights From This Galaxy by Wil Weitzel is a merciless debut on the troubled relationships between humans and nature, humans and animals, and humans and humans. Travelers keep watch over a dying lion in the Kalahari Desert. A boy is abused by his stepfather, restrained on a leash and forced to sleep outside in rural Tennessee. A woman sacrifices herself to the wolves of the Adirondacks. Guilt and shame echo through these pages, often consuming the characters with a viscous bite." -- Electric Literature , "The Must-Read Short Story Collections of 2023" "These tales byWil Weitzel have the still, piney quietude you find in a forest when a gust ofair brings a scent rustling through. Then just like that they''re over, andsomething special lingers. What magic, what beauty there is in these pages." --John Freeman, author of Wind, Trees "Ranging overnearly the whole globe, this taut gathering of gorgeously written stories,dense with apex predators--sharks, snakes, lions, lynxes, wolves, and, most ofall, people--makes a stately but impassioned case for the illimitable value ofthe natural world and our life-giving relationship to it. Weitzel combines anaturalist''s knowledge and a tremendous observational facility to tell thetales of people who see themselves as part of fearsome nature, not set apartfrom it; who battle and defend animals with the same complex, fierce, andintertwined devotion with which they battle and defend the people in theirlives. Weitzel''s voice is arrestingly original; his taciturn but movingdialogue has an oracular cadence, and he tunes in to a frequency that seems toreach up from the deepest depths of consciousness itself. Weitzel captures away of life--unflinching discipline and dignity, an innate sense of the honor ofwork, and something close to genuine humility--that is fighting ferociously tohang on, and that we desperately need for our spiritual survival. Weitzel ispart stylist and part shaman, but his work is all art, and art of the highestorder." --Matthew Thomas, New York Times -bestselling author of WeAre Not Ourselves "To read these stories is to feel the primalpull of wilderness, the absolute bewilderment of grief, the knife''s edge thatcomes when we must choose this life or this other life altogether. I foundmyself leaning forward reading these stories--arrested, hyperaware, and,ultimately, awed. This is a first book to reckon with." --Joe Wilkins, authorof Fall Back Down When I Die and The Mountain and theFathers "Wil Weitzel has left me no choice but to burden him with comparisons to Chekov, Hemingway, and Munro. His stories are that kind of brilliant. Set in myriad vividly drawn geographic and socio-economic landscapes, his vast array of fully realized characters runs the gamut: young and old; innocent and evil; cross-species; predators and prey; brutal and tender; achingly sympathetic and unforgivably loathsome. The deliberate, intentional cruelties people inflict on one another (and on animal life) juxtaposed with inherent decency and kindness join forces to expose the mind, heart, and blood of humanity and the inhumanity of humankind. The prose is exquisite, but these stories are anything but pretty. Rather, they are the stuff of great literature: unflinching and beautiful. --Binnie Kirshenbaum, author of Rabbits For Food, Finalist for the 2023 Big Other Book Award for Fiction Electric Literature , "The Must-Read Short Story Collections of 2023" "Spare, haunting. . . grimly beautiful." --Kirkus Reviews "[L]yrical and hypnotic. . . . This one ought to make a splash." --Publishers Weekly " Nights From This Galaxy by Wil Weitzel is a merciless debut on the troubled relationships between humans and nature, humans and animals, and humans and humans. Travelers keep watch over a dying lion in the Kalahari Desert. A boy is abused by his stepfather, restrained on a leash and forced to sleep outside in rural Tennessee. A woman sacrifices herself to the wolves of the Adirondacks. Guilt and shame echo through these pages, often consuming the characters with a viscous bite." -- Electric Literature , "The Must-Read Short Story Collections of 2023" "These tales byWil Weitzel have the still, piney quietude you find in a forest when a gust ofair brings a scent rustling through. Then just like that they''re over, andsomething special lingers. What magic, what beauty there is in these pages." --John Freeman, author of Wind, Trees "Ranging overnearly the whole globe, this taut gathering of gorgeously written stories,dense with apex predators--sharks, snakes, lions, lynxes, wolves, and, most ofall, people--makes a stately but impassioned case for the illimitable value ofthe natural world and our life-giving relationship to it. Weitzel combines anaturalist''s knowledge and a tremendous observational facility to tell thetales of people who see themselves as part of fearsome nature, not set apartfrom it; who battle and defend animals with the same complex, fierce, andintertwined devotion with which they battle and defend the people in theirlives. Weitzel''s voice is arrestingly original; his taciturn but movingdialogue has an oracular cadence, and he tunes in to a frequency that seems toreach up from the deepest depths of consciousness itself. Weitzel captures away of life--unflinching discipline and dignity, an innate sense of the honor ofwork, and something close to genuine humility--that is fighting ferociously tohang on, and that we desperately need for our spiritual survival. Weitzel ispart stylist and part shaman, but his work is all art, and art of the highestorder." --Matthew Thomas, New York Times -bestselling author of WeAre Not Ourselves "To read these stories is to feel the primalpull of wilderness, the absolute bewilderment of grief, the knife''s edge thatcomes when we must choose this life or this other life altogether. I foundmyself leaning forward reading these stories--arrested, hyperaware, and,ultimately, awed. This is a first book to reckon with." --Joe Wilkins, authorof Fall Back Down When I Die and The Mountain and theFathers "Wil Weitzel has left me no choice but to burden him with comparisons to Chekov, Hemingway, and Munro. His stories are that kind of brilliant. Set in myriad vividly drawn geographic and socio-economic landscapes, his vast array of fully realized characters runs the gamut: young and old; innocent and evil; cross-species; predators and prey; brutal and tender; achingly sympathetic and unforgivably loathsome. The deliberate, intentional cruelties people inflict on one another (and on animal life) juxtaposed with inherent decency and kindness join forces to expose the mind, heart, and blood of humanity and the inhumanity of humankind. The prose is exquisite, but these stories are anything but pretty. Rather, they are the stuff of great literature: unflinching and beautiful. --Binnie Kirshenbaum, author of Rabbits For Food, "These tales byWil Weitzel have the still, piney quietude you find in a forest when a gust ofair brings a scent rustling through. Then just like that they're over, andsomething special lingers. What magic, what beauty there is in these pages." --John Freeman, author of Wind, Trees "Wil Weitzel has left me no choice but to burden him with comparisons to Chekov, Hemingway, and Munro. His stories are that kind of brilliant. Set in myriad vividly drawn geographic and socio-economic landscapes, his vast array of fully realized characters runs the gamut: young and old; innocent and evil; cross-species; predators and prey; brutal and tender; achingly sympathetic and unforgivably loathsome. The deliberate, intentional cruelties people inflict on one another (and on animal life) juxtaposed with inherent decency and kindness join forces to expose the mind, heart, and blood of humanity and the inhumanity of humankind. The prose is exquisite, but these stories are anything but pretty. Rather, they are the stuff of great literature: unflinching and beautiful. --Binnie Kirshenbaum, author of Rabbits For Food

Dewey Decimal813.6

Synopsis"What magic, what beauty there is in these pages."--John Freeman, author of Wind, Trees In this adventurous debut lurk stories that are deep, lush, and full of wonder. While camping in the Kalahari Desert, a couple grows attached to a starving lion on the cusp of death; meanwhile, just north of the Smokies, a young boy is held captive by a dangerous old man who hunts dogs for sport; and off the Hawaiian coast, lovers kayak into the ocean to observe a tiger shark, only to find themselves in treacherous waters. The characters in these stories are headstrong and complex, and the prose is buoyant, rhythmic, and fiercely knowing. Nights from This Galaxy captures the spirit of a wild and wonderful planet, while acknowledging our shared fragility and the imminent grief that binds us all.

LC Classification NumberPS3623