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Am I alone here? : notes on living to read and reading to live
- Title
- Am I alone here? : notes on living to read and reading to live / Peter Orner ; illustrations by Eric Orner.
- Author
- Orner, Peter
- Publication
- New York : Catapult, [2016]
- ©2016
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 17-403 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xvii, 316 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
- Summary
- "'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 V̀clav 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.
- Subject
- Call Number
- JFD 17-403
- ISBN
- 9781936787258
- 1936787253
- OCLC
- 939427361
- Author
- Orner, Peter, author.
- Title
- Am I alone here? : notes on living to read and reading to live / Peter Orner ; illustrations by Eric Orner.
- Publisher
- New York : Catapult, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFD 17-403