In a Special Light
by Elroy Bode

Elroy Bode's books on nature and life have made him a favorite of readers and critics. In memorable prose, he explores his adopted city of El Paso, the land and people of Central Texas, and his roles as teacher, father, and writer. These deftly observed, beautifully written pieces find the universal in the particular. While capturing moments in the lives around him, Bode discovers the pleasure in the everyday and joy in the world in which we live.

Bode, the author of eight other books, brings a modest and wise authority to the page. His subjects are indeed seen "in a special light." Like the work of Wendell Berry and Texas writer John Graves, Bode's writing is rooted in the notion that one's work ought to be connected with one's place. He takes pleasure in the simple life, finding and giving voice to what might otherwise go unnoticed.

"In my own writing I constantly put down, in the form of journal entries, whatever caught my fancy. I had no formal pattern of ideas to present. All I had were questions--lots of them--about concerns that others, astoundingly, seemed either not to question very much or else had arrived at views about them that I could not accept. I felt that my life depended on the answers I would find--about the nature of reality, about the nature of nature, about religion, about the business of humans living on a planet that kept circling, day after day, eon after eon, around a burning sun in an unfathomable world."
--Elroy Bode

ZB0262    In a Special Light                                    $24.95

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