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Format:
Book
Title:
The wink of the zenith : the shaping of a writer's life
ISBN:
9780803211193

9780803238459
Publication Information:
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2008.
Physical Description:
xiv, 231 pages ; 23 cm
Contents:
I: Home economics for halfbacks -- Going, going, gone -- The wink of the Zenith -- The summer of the vampire -- Cover stories -- Home economics for halfbacks -- II: When the clock stops -- When the clock stops -- Into a Maelstrom of fire: on having a feeling for Thomas Hardy -- Echo lark -- Numbers -- Running after my father -- III: Travels in lavender and light -- Bewitched, bothered and bewildered -- The voice of the past -- Shine on -- Travels in lavender and light -- Jambon dreams -- Flesh and fortune: coming back to measure for measure -- Epilogue: silence the pianos.
Summary:
The author of In the Shadow of Memory and A World of Light uncovers a unique and telling perspective on the forging of a writer's individual sensibility in a memoir that explores fundamental questions about how life shapes the creative spirit and how the writer makes sense of it all.
Local Note:
Finalist, Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction, 2009
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