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Chargement... Still No Word from You: Notes in the Marginpar Peter Orner
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. REALLY enjoyed this. Saw a blurb for it and had almost forgotten I read his short story collection [Last Car Over Sagamore Bridge] a few years ago. This essay collection contains remembrances with people or places from Orner's past and some related to book passages or authors. These things are tied together with present day thoughts or ideas. The writing is very well done and his use of language is exceptional. RECOMMENDED ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Biography & Autobiography.
Literary Criticism.
Nonfiction.
A new collection of pieces on literature and life by the author of Am I Alone Here?, a finalist for the NBCC Award for Criticism From the acclaimed fiction writer about whom Dwight Garner of the New York Times wrote, "You know from the second you pick him up that he's the real deal," comes Still No Word from You, a unique chain of essays and intimate stories that meld the lived life and the reading life. For Orner, there is no separation. Covering such well-known writers as Lorraine Hansberry, Primo Levi, and Marilynne Robinson, as well as other greats like Maeve Brennan and James Alan McPherson, Orner's highly personal take on literature alternates with his own true stories of loss and love, hope and despair. In his mother's copy of A Coney Island of the Mind, he's stopped short by a single word in the margin, "YES!"-which leads him to conjure his mother at twenty-three. He stops reading Penelope Fitzgerald's The Beginning of Spring three quarters of the way through because he knows that finishing the novel will leave him bereft. Orner's solution is to start again from the beginning to slow the inevitable heartache. Still No Word from You is a book for anyone for whom reading is as essential as breathing. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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