A Slender Thread Paperback by Diane Ackerman

Product Details

• Publisher: Vintage (1998-03-31)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 320 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780679771333
• Item Weight: 262.32 grams
• Dimensions: 20.27 x 13.23 x 1.78 cm

An astonishing book by the prize-winning, bestselling author of A Natural History of the Senses that reveals her parallel lives as an observer of the wildlife in her garden and as a telephone crisis counselor.

"(Ackerman) brings a luminous and illuminating combination of sensuality, science, and speculation to whatever she considers." —San Francisco Examiner

About the Author

DIANE ACKERMAN has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction in addition to garnering many other awards and recognitions for her work, which include the bestselling The Zookeeper’s Wife and A Natural History of the Senses. She lives in Ithaca, New York.