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Still Life With Insects (A Graywolf Discovery) (1989)

by Brian Kiteley

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Originally published in 1989 by Ticknor & Fields, Brian Kiteley'sStill Life with Insects is the intensely focused chronicle of Elwyn Farmer, an amateur entomologist, who uses the field notes of his insect sightings to examine and reweave the tattered fragments of his life. In a series of visually powerful and emotionally breathtaking vignettes Kiteley distills the transient beauty of the natural world and lays bare the suffering and joy of one man's life from his maturity in the post-war years to very old age in the 19809's. His striking narrative technique aptly captures the experience we all have as we struggle to make sense of what it means to be human in the face of the inevitable passage of time.… (more)
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The premise of this novel was really original and attractive: to follow the life of an amateur entomologist through a bunch of his field notes in several isolated, and not particularly critical, moments of his life. But unfortunately the story didn’t grab me at all, and though it’s a very short novel I found it a bit tedious. ( )
  cuentosalgernon | Nov 6, 2015 |
This is an intense and fascinating book. (Recently reread. When I first read it I was so impressed I wrote to thank the publisher.) Its narrator, Elwyn Farmer, is truthful (perhaps painfully so) in detailing his life and how his actions affect his family. Its author, Brian Kiteley, quotes Thoreau, "The world is never the less beautifull though viewed through a chink or knot-hole." That quotation sets the mood for reading this fascinating book. I plan to leave it handy to reread once more before I reshelve it. ( )
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The world is never the less beautifull
though viewed through a chink or knot-hole.
THOREAU
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To Eric James Kiteley
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Collected in a small stagnant pool. Active
swimmers. One swimmer fed on leaf hoppers.
Drumheller, Alberta. September 29, 1945.
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Originally published in 1989 by Ticknor & Fields, Brian Kiteley'sStill Life with Insects is the intensely focused chronicle of Elwyn Farmer, an amateur entomologist, who uses the field notes of his insect sightings to examine and reweave the tattered fragments of his life. In a series of visually powerful and emotionally breathtaking vignettes Kiteley distills the transient beauty of the natural world and lays bare the suffering and joy of one man's life from his maturity in the post-war years to very old age in the 19809's. His striking narrative technique aptly captures the experience we all have as we struggle to make sense of what it means to be human in the face of the inevitable passage of time.

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