- Hardcover: 195 pages
- Publisher: David R Godine Pub (August 1991)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0879238852
- ISBN-13: 978-0879238858
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 340 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,305,974 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
Fiction writer Dubus ( Finding a Girl in America ) writes with searing candor, grace and tenderness in these autobiographical essays. He celebrates the small daily sacraments of love, recalls growing up in Cajun-Creole Louisiana, gauges the sadness of America while riding a Boston-San Francisco train and describes an encounter with a ghost in a house in Provincetown, Mass. Several pieces deal with topics reminiscent of his short stories, such as an act of violence against a rose-eating sheep or the trial of a punk accused of assaulting a 15-year-old girl. One fluid meditation links the existential challenge of being a writer to a paean to womanhood. The powerful closing section focuses on the 1986 car accident that crippled Dubus, leading to the breakup of his marriage and enforced separation from his two small daughters. His account of this tragedy is intense, heartbreaking yet ultimately triumphant. A soul-baring self-portrait, this magical volume contains some of the finest personal essays in recent memory.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Dubus's first volume of nonfiction is a collection of personal essays written over the last 13 years. The adjective moving is overused but entirely appropriate to these wonderful pieces. One deals with the futility of literature in the face of poverty and suffering, another with our culture's tendency to violence, a tendency Dubus freely admits to sharing. "On Charon's Wharf" celebrates "that loveliest of all sacraments between man and woman." Most striking is Dubus's description of the automobile accident that cost him one leg and the use of the other. Quite simply, this is an exceptional volume that belongs in collections of contemporary American literature and all libraries where essays are read.
- Grove Koger, Boise P.L., Id.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Grove Koger, Boise P.L., Id.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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