Can I read Outside on EtoBox?
Outside by Barry Lopez is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Outside about?
The six stories in \*Outside \* show Barry Lopez's majestic talent as a fiction writer. Lopez writes in spare prose, but his narratives resonate with an uncanny power. With a reverence for our exterior and interior landscapes, these stories offer profound insight into the relationships between humans and animals, creativity and beauty, and ultimately, life and death. In "Desert Notes," the narrator says, "All my life I have wanted to trick blood from a rock." The story proceeds to instruct the visitor on how to experience the desert but continues like no ordinary field guide. At stake here is what is at the furthest edge of our grasp. "You will think you have hold of the idea when you have only the hold of its clothing." Rattlesnakes, the shell of a beetle, a few twigs, silence--out of these spare elements Lopez conjures a realm that shimmers with an elusive but palpable presence. "The Search for the Heron" and "Within Birds' Hearing" present encounters with animals that are imbued with spiritual--and often inexplicable--exchanges. In solitary, almost visionary episodes, the narrators pass into permeable realms of nature, recalling a time when humans and animals spoke the same lang
Who reads Outside?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Barry Lopez
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Mystery, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.8 / 5 (38 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14