Am I alone here? : notes on living to read and reading to live
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Middletown-Thrall Public Library District - Adult Nonfiction | 818 ORN | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : Catapult, [2016].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xvii, 316 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"'Stories, both my own and those I've taken to heart, make up whoever it is that I've become,' Peter Orner writes in this collection of essays about reading, writing, and living. Orner reads and writes everywhere he finds himself: a hospital cafeteria, a coffee shop in Albania, or a crowded bus in Haiti. The result is 'a book of unlearned meditations that stumbles into memoir.' Among the many writers Orner addresses are Isaac Babel and Zora Neale Hurston, both of whom told their truths and were silenced; Franz Kafka, who professed loneliness but craved connection; Robert Walser, who spent the last twenty-three years of his life in a Swiss insane asylum, 'working" at being crazy; and Juan Rulfo, who practiced the difficult art of silence. Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, Yasunari Kawabata, Saul Bellow, Mavis Gallant, John Edgar Wideman, William Trevor, and V¿¿clav Havel make appearances, as well as the poet Herbert Morris about whom almost nothing is known. An elegy for an eccentric late father, and the end of a marriage, Am I Alone Here? is also a celebration of the possibility of renewal. At once personal and panoramic, this book will inspire readers to return to the essential stories of their own lives."--From publisher's description.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Orner, P., & Orner, E. (2016). Am I alone here?: notes on living to read and reading to live . Catapult.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Orner, Peter and Eric Orner. 2016. Am I Alone Here?: Notes On Living to Read and Reading to Live. Catapult.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Orner, Peter and Eric Orner. Am I Alone Here?: Notes On Living to Read and Reading to Live Catapult, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Orner, Peter, and Eric Orner. Am I Alone Here?: Notes On Living to Read and Reading to Live Catapult, 2016.
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