Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy Years later a Ficus carica

Years later a Ficus carica grows in the back garden of a house in London where Ada Kazantzakis lives

If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers

or so he thinks

2018 Illumination Book Awards

Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy Years later a Ficus caricaMark Doty's prose has been hailed as "tempered and tough, sorrowing and serene" (The New York Times Book Review) and "achingly beautiful" (The Boston Globe). In Still Life with Oysters and Lemon he offers a stunning exploration of our attachment to ordinary things how we invest objects with human store, and why.