Heart's Desire (book)
# 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"
