Self-Portrait with Turtles

A Memoir

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Self-Portrait with Turtles

A Memoir

"You don't have to be an avid naturalist to love this poignant book. David M. Carroll is almost unique in his ability to capture nature equally well with his paintbrush, with carefully selected words, and with detailed scientific observations. In Self-Portrait with Turtles he brings to life the crucial moments that have shaped his passion and his talents: his early years in the Old Swamp; the teacher who told him, contrary to everything he had heard, that art is the only thing that matters, the only thing that lasts; his growing sense of the dichotomy between the nature he knew firsthand and the biology he was taught in the classroom; his years at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where he got to know the turtles of the Fens, including one giant snapper he wrestled to shore and carried in a wheelbarrow to his studio for a portrait session; his brief career as a teacher; and his decades scraping out a living as an artist, raising three children on a shoestring. He is, as Annie Dillard has said, 'A madman, a genius, a national treasure, ' and in Self-Portrait with Turtles he tells us how he got that way"--Publisher's description.

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Houghton Mifflin
Language
English
Pages
192

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Cover of: Self-Portrait with Turtles
Self-Portrait with Turtles: a Memoir
2005, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
in English
Cover of: Self-Portrait with Turtles
Self-Portrait with Turtles: A Memoir
June 13, 2005, Mariner Books
in English
Cover of: Self-Portrait with Turtles
Self-Portrait with Turtles: A Memoir
2005, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
in English
Cover of: Self-Portrait with Turtles
Self-Portrait with Turtles: A Memoir
March 11, 2004, Houghton Mifflin
in English

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First Sentence

"CONSECRATED to the God of my parents before my eyes were open, I lived my first eight years in a closed circle of family, relatives, church, and school."

Classifications

Library of Congress
QL666.C5 C369 2004, QL666.C5C369 2003

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7604054M
Internet Archive
selfportraitwith00carr
ISBN 10
0618162259
ISBN 13
9780618162253
LCCN
2003047895
OCLC/WorldCat
52001187
Library Thing
1646541

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CONSECRATED to the God of my parents before my eyes were open, I lived my first eight years in a closed circle of family, relatives, church, and school.
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