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NONFICTION: Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters, edited by Linda Gray Sexton and Lois Ames ∙The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Michael Davie ∙Dispatches, Michael Herr ∙Parallel Botany, Leo Lionni The River Congo, Peter Forbath
NONFICTION: The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Michael Davie Dispatches, Michael Herr∙Parallel Botany, Leo Lionni∙Ring, Jonathan Yardley∙The River Congo, Peter Forbath
Parallel Botany, Leo Lionni...
NONFICTION: Chinese Shadows, Simon Leys -The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh,edited by Michael Davie Parallel Botany, Leo Lionni -Ring, Jonathan Yardley -The River Congo, Peter Forbath
Parallel Botany is the most complete (and only) full-scale guide to this large, bizarre, highly diversified and totally imaginary world. It is also one of the funniest and most brilliant parodies of scientific jargon and scholarship ever published. Standard verdure grows and decays; Lionni's plants do neither. Instead, writes Lionni, they exist outside of time, "like a memory that has taken on actuality." These matterless, insubstantial greens, he notes, "though impervious to any violent acts of nature, disintegrate at the least contact with an object alien to their normal environment, dissolving into dust and leaving only...