โ Graham Brack
๐ Fiction
๐
2018
๐ Sapere Books
๐ English
โ 201 KB
โฆ LIBER โฆ
Love and other ways of dying: essays
โ Scribed by Michael Paterniti
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group;Dial Press
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 295 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
In this moving, lyrical, and ultimately uplifting collection of essays, Michael Paterniti turns a keen eye on the full range of human experience, introducing us to an unforgettable cast of everyday people.
Michael Paterniti is one of the most original and empathic storytellers working today. His writing has been described as "humane, devastating, and beautiful" by Elizabeth Gilbert, "spellbinding" by Anthony Doerr, and "expansive and joyful" by George Saunders. In the seventeen wide-ranging essays collected for the first time in Love and Other Ways of Dying, he brings his full literary powers to bear, pondering happiness and grief, memory and the redemptive power of human connection.
In the remote Ukranian countryside, Paterniti picks apples (and faces mortality) with a real-life giant; in Nanjing, China, he confronts a distraught jumper on a suicide bridge; in Dodge City, Kansas, he takes up residence at a roadside hotel and sees, firsthand, the...
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
โ Wendell Berry
๐ Fiction
๐
2006
๐ Counterpoint
๐ English
โ 142 KB
๐ 2 views
The continuing war in Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, the political sniping engendered by the Supreme Court nominations, Terry Schiavo — contemporary American society is characterized by divisive anger, profound loss, and danger. Wendell Berry, one of the country's foremost cultural critics, addresses
Thick: And Other Essays
โ Tressie McMillan Cottom
๐ Fiction
๐
2018;2019
๐ The New Press
๐ English
โ 91 KB
Thick: And Other Essays
โ Tressie McMillan Cottom
๐ Fiction
๐
2018;2019
๐ The New Press
๐ English
โ 91 KB
Murder: And Other Essays
โ David Adams Richards
๐ Fiction
๐
2019;2020
๐ Doubleday Canada;Cela
๐ en-US
โ 163 KB
๐ 1 views
****A thrilling, revelatory collection from one of the most provocative and original literary voices in Canada today.**** David Adams Richards is one of Canada's greatest writers, his place in the pantheon ensured by seventeen novels of consistent power and vision. He is also the author of four ma
โ Washington, Booker T.
๐ Fiction
๐
2012
๐ Dover Publications
๐ English
โ 250 KB
๐ 1 views
Essayist, poet, and philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803โ1882) propounded a transcendental idealism emphasizing self-reliance, self-culture, and individual expression. The six essays and one address included in this volume, selected from *Essays, First Series* (1841) and *Essays, Second Series* (1