Festival Days

✍ Scribed by Jo Ann Beard

• Book ID: 115276837
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 294 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780316497237

✦ Synopsis

A searing and exhilarating new collection from the award-winning author of The Boys of My Youthand In Zanesville ,who "honors the beautiful, the sacred, and the comic in life" (Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award -winner for The Friend )
When "The Fourth State of Matter," her now famous piece about a workplace massacre at the University of Iowa was published in The New Yorker , Jo Ann Beard immediately became one of the most influential writers in America, forging a path for a new generation of young authors willing to combine the dexterity of fiction with the rigors of memory and reportage, and in the process extending the range of possibility for the essay form.

Now, with Festival Days, Beard brings us the culmination of her groundbreaking work. In these nine pieces, she captures both the small, luminous moments of daily existence and those...