The second and center piece in a trilogy of memoirs that John Nichols wrote about his first fifteen years in Taos, New Mexico. Nichols defines his long sojourn in Taos as enthusiastically and poignantly (and humorously) as any of the artists who have so richly evoked the spirit of this complex state. A classic and exuberant paean to the rhythm of life in a wonderful country by the noted author of The Milagro Beanfield War.
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The Last Beautiful Days of Autumn "Novelist John Nichols has written a beautiful paean to Taos, New Mexico and the surrounding country. He is by turns sentimental, harsh, lusty, and humorous. The landscape and the people come alive here in all their variety, depth, and richness. In fact, it is Nichols' evocation of character that brings forth the country's harsh beauty. This is an extraordinary personal essay about one of the most stunning sections of the country. LIBRARY JOURNAL "For a serious writer of fiction this nonfiction book is all the more remarkable in its honest account of one man's oassions. The prose soars in natural and physical description, whether Nichols reads a river for trout or exults in the sensuous details of lovemaking upon the earth. The beauty he invokes lingers like burning leaves. Or, in his own final words as he addresses that somewhat anonymous woman whose spirit haunts these pages: "Life as it should be, darlin." Purple prose and all." THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL The Last Beautiful Days of Autumn is the second, and the centerpiece, in a trilogy of memoirs that John Nichols wrote about his fifteen years in Taos, New Mexico. The other volumes are If Mountains Die and On The Mesa. Nichol's other books include Wizard of Loneliness, The Sterile Cuckoo, the fiction trilogy-The Milagro Beanfield War, The Magic Journay, and Nivana Blues, A Ghost in the Music, American Blood, A Fragile Beauty, Elegy for September, Conjugal Bliss, and the nonfiction trilogy-If Mountains Die, The Last Beautiful Days of Autumn, and On The Mesa.
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My very favorite book ever,
This review is from: Last Beautiful Days of Autumn, The (Paperback)
My grandmother gave this beautiful book to me for Christmas the year it was published. (I believe it was 1980 or 1981). I feel madly in love and am still madly in love today. I re-read this book every year in October, it has become a most beloved ritual. I took a chance in early 1992 and wrote to John Nichols and was I ever surprised! He wrote me back. I have two copies and now that they have a new edition, I plan on buying it too! I have a hard back signed copy that I treasure and I know it is authentic because the signature is exactly the way he signed his letter to me. Read this book and plan to be thoroughly enchanted. I was and still am after almost 20 years.
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One of the finest living American writers,
By "madridbook" (Santa Fe, NM United States) - See all my reviews
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John Nichols is always a joy to read. He is the John Stenbeck of our time. No one combines art and social views so beautifully as he does.
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I Love You Papi,
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Great job papi, and a great read!love, your daughter, Julia
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- An American Child Supreme: The Education of a Liberation Ecologist by John Nichols on 4 pages
- The Wizard of Loneliness by John Treadwell Nichols in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Conversations with Rudolfo Anaya (Literary Conversations) by Bruce Dick on page 53
- The Sterile Cuckoo (Norton Paperback Fiction) by John Treadwell Nichols in Front Matter
- The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols in Front Matter
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