From the Preface: Among the topics that arise in this book] are family roots and other human connections; places; travel; books; food; manners and morals; urban design; womanhood; liberal education; natural scenes and objects; and music and architecture. Directed toward discriminating readers, the volume as a whole may be taken as an exercise in seeing the world, even feeling it, and in assessing and appreciating experience (the author's, others', and one's own) and the power of literature to render it.

From the Preface: Among the topics that arise in this book] are family roots and other human connections; places; travel; books; food; manners and morals; urban design; womanhood; liberal education; natural scenes and objects; and music and architecture. Directed toward discriminating readers, the volume as a whole may be taken as an exercise in seeing the world, even feeling it, and in assessing and appreciating experience (the author's, others', and one's own) and the power of literature to render it.

Jerusalem, Jerusalem is the final volume of the Fontenelle Trilogy. It is intended to stand together or independently with two previous novels, Desert Light and The Homestead. The story in this book is set in the early 1990's.

Jerusalem, Jerusalem is the final volume of the Fontenelle Trilogy. It is intended to stand together or independently with two previous novels, Desert Light and The Homestead. The story in this book is set in the early 1990's.