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| The Names of Things: Life, Language, and Beginnings in the Egyptian Desert |  | Author: Susan Brind Morrow
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
Category: Book
Buy New: $112.84
as of 5/24/2012 07:38 PDT details
Seller: DailyDeal USA
Sales Rank: 166,652
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 240
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 6.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 1573226807
EAN: 9781573226806
ASIN: 1573226807
Publication Date: June 1, 1998
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Susan Brind Morrow takes readers from her magical and sometimes troubled childhood in New York State, to the austere splendors of the Egyptian desert. Written with a keen understanding of language, Brind Morrow traces the routes of ideas and images through word origins and time, bringing forth an inner life of words.
Amazon.com Review
Susan Brind Morrow's lyric prose wades the deep waters of life, death, and the meanings of words. Her narrative evokes the smell of raw, wet earth from her Finger Lakes childhood, the red rock of the Egyptian desert she travels, dead Greek words she studied "like shards of some wonderful glass," and fluid Arabic where "a name is a mirror to catch the soul of a thing, and a pun is the corner of its garment." Seeking desert solace for her siblings' deaths, Brind adventures through Egypt's Red Sea Hills and Sudan's wadis, studying the birth of language amid its natural, living origins.
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