Cutty, One Rock: Low Characters and Strange Places, Gently Explained - Brossura

Kleinzahler, August

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0374530181 ISBN 13: 9780374530181

Casa editrice: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005

Riassunto

Cutty, One Rock takes the reader on a wild journey by airplane, bus, ferry, and foot from childhood to early manhood in the company of a New Jersey family in equal measures cultivated and deranged. We witness scenes of passionate, even violent intensity that give rise to meditations on eros and literature, the solitariness of travel, and the poetics of place.

These individual pieces, most of which first appeared in The London Review of Books and won an international cult following, are by turns "poignant, surreal, down home and lyrical, a mixture of qualities that inheres in his language with uncommon delicacy and effect" (Leonard Michaels). Together they make up an intellectual and emotional autobiography on the run. The book's final section, about Kleinzahler's adored, doomed older brother, is unforgettable, and since its appearance last year in the LRB, has already entered the literature as one of the most moving contemporary memoirs.

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L'autore

August Kleinzahler is the author of ten books of poetry, most recently The Strange Hours Travelers Keep. He lives in San Francisco.

Product Description

Readers are taken on a wild journey by from childhood to early manhood in the company of a New Jersey family in equal measures cultivated and deranged. These individual pieces, most of which first appeared in "The London Review of Books," make up an intellectual and emotional autobiography on the run.

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• Editore: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0374530181
• ISBN 13: 9780374530181
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 210