- Cancer, Utah, Ovaries, Patients
In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, the Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by.
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Grave, earnest, contemplative and prestige.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Terry Tempest Williams
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 317
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage, Pantheon
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780939643462
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