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"