Storm by Stewart, George R.

Storm (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781681375182)

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Storm by Stewart, George R.

Storm

$17.95
Storm by Stewart, George R.

Storm

$17.95
Format: Paperback
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A thrilling, innovative novel about the interplay between nature and humankind by the author of Names on the Land.

With Storm, first published in 1941, George R. Stewart invented a new genre of fiction: the eco-novel. California has been plunged into drought throughout the summer and fall when a ship reports an unusual barometric reading from the far western Pacific. In San Francisco, a junior meteorologist in the Weather Bureau takes note of the anomaly and plots "an incipient little whorl" on the weather map, a developing storm, he suspects, that he privately dubs Maria. Stewart's novel tracks Maria's progress to and beyond the shores of the United States through the eyes of meteorologists, linemen, snowplow operators, a general, a couple of decamping lovebirds, and an unlucky owl, and the storm, surging and ebbing, will bring long-needed rain, flooded roads, deep snows, accidents, and death. Storm is an epic account of humanity's relationship to and dependence on the natural world.

Author: George R. Stewart
ISBN-10: 1681375184
ISBN-13: 9781681375182
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 08/17/2021
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2021
By George R. Stewart
By George R. Stewart
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George R. Stewart (1895-1980) was born in Pennsylvania and educated at Princeton. He received his PhD in English literature from Columbia in 1922 and joined the English faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1924. He was a sociologist, toponymist, and founding member of the American Name Society, and the author of more than twenty books, including the highly successful novel Earth Abides and several works of American history. In addition to Storm, NYRB Classics publishes his study of American place names, Names on the Land.

Nathaniel Rich is the author of Second Nature; Losing Earth, a finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Award and a winner of awards from the Society of Environmental Journalists and the American Institute of Physicists; and the novels King Zeno, Odds Against Tomorrow, and The Mayor's Tongue.

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