Wickerby Author:Charles Siebert On the back cover: — "A work of great humor, deep humanity, and breathtaking sentences, Wickerby manages - very genially - to turn Walden completely inside out and upside down. Shuttling between the wilds of Brooklyn and Canada, Charles Siebert upends all our preconceptions about 'nature' and 'civilization', two words that look completely differe... more »nt by the end of this gem of a book. Siebert brings a wonderful new voice to American nature writing." - Michael Pollan
"This is a visionary book that means to challenge the way we see ourselves in the world, the way we think about nature and modernity. Wickerby - the story of one love-lorn and city-exasperated man's flight to his wayward girlfriend's abandoned country cabin and the radiant epiphany of his return - reads like a combination of Nabokov and Whitman: rapturously well-written, often hilarious, filled with astonishing anecdote and detail." - Franciso Goldman
"Charles Siebert writes like an angel, and full of pith - coalescing incandescent insights about woods-nature or city-nature and how they often interlock, with the funny, unassuming sort of common sense that acts as glue for this enduring book." - Edward Hoagland
"Mr Siebert makes writing athletic: serious and sporty, grave and quick. The miracle of Wickerby is not that his log cabin proves tenable but that his nuked quarter of Brooklyn looks delicious, is much the preferable garden." - Padgett Powell« less