Heart's Desire (book)

Heart's Desire is a book by Edward Hoagland, published by Summit Books circa 1988 with the ISBN 978-0-67164-985-2.

In the book's 35 essays, Hoagland offers his observations on a range of topics, including life, love, marriage, children, suffering, the city, and isolation.

Contents

• "The Ridge-Slope Fox and the Knife Thrower"
• "The Courage of Turtles"
• "Home is Two Places"
• "Mountain Notch"
• "Of Cows and Cambodia"
• "Howling Back at the Wolves"
• "Lament the Red Wolf"
• "Thoughts on Returning to the City After Five Months on a Mountain Where the Wolves Howled"
• "City Walking"
• "City Rat"
• "The Threshold and the Jolt of Pain"
• "In the Toils of the Law"
• "Virginie and the Slaves"
• "Mushpan Man"
• "Bears, Bears, Bears"
• "Hailing the Elusory Mountain Lion"
• "The Moose on the Wall"
• "A Run of Bad Luck"
• "Heart's Desire"
• "The Lapping, Itchy Edge of Love"
• "The Problem of the Golden Rule"
• "Bragging for Humanity"
• "Dogs and the Tug of Life"
• "Other Lives"
• "The Midnight Train to Portland"
• "Fred King and the Allagash"
• "Walking the Dead Diamond River"
• "The Tugman's Passage"
• "A Low-Water Man"
• "Heaven and Nature"
• "Tiger Bright"
• "Dying Argots"
• "Two Clowns"
• "Should Auld Acquaintance"
• "Gods, Masks, and Horses"

External links

• New York Times review