| Description |
316 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Sometimes I believe we are being tested. Chekhov's way of dying -- A Bachelor uncle -- Winter in September -- Wideman's welcome -- The lonely voice -- Stray thoughts on Kafka -- Eudora Welty, badass -- Walser on Mission Street -- On the beauty of not writing or an unnecessary homage to Juan Rulfo. Let me cook you an egg. Upper Moose Lake, 1990 -- My father's gloves -- Unforgivable -- While reading Imre Kertesz -- Under all this noise -- Hit and run -- Carter on Borden -- Shameless impostors -- The infinite passion of Gina Berriault -- Since the beginning of time -- Surviving the lives we have -- Every grief-soaked word -- A black boy, a white boy -- A small note from Haiti. And here you are climbing trees. Mad passionate true love -- Frederick the Great -- An American writer: Victor Martinez -- Cheever in Alabama -- All lives are interesting -- Sisters and brothers -- Parting -- What feels like the world -- Virgie walking away -- Cincinnati, 2001 -- Salter -- Early morning thoughts on Ahab -- All fathers are fictional -- Ronald A. Orner -- Letter from New Melleray, Iowa -- A palm-of-the-hand -- Night train to split -- Father's death: the final version. |
| Subject |
Books and reading.
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Orner, Peter.
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Essays.
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| Genre |
Essays.
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| ISBN |
9781936787258 pbk. |
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1936787253 pbk. |
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