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Autore |
Vigderman Patricia <1942-> |
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Titolo |
Possibility : essays against despair / / Patricia Vigderman |
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Louisville, Kentucky : , : Sarabande Books, , 2013 |
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Edizione |
[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (153 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American essays - 21st century |
American literature - 21st century |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Introduction: Seeing Double ; I. Internal Conversations ; The Task of the Translator ; A Writer's Harvest; Sebald in Starbucks; Eye Shadows; Monkey Mind ; Henry Adams in Japan ; II. The Measure of Grief; Genealogy (January 29); Dixie Diary ; The Other Side; My Depressed Person (A Monologue) ; Not Exactly Kaddish ; Grace Paley Reading ; III. At Liberty ; Eggs; Tapping Back ; What It's Like in Ohio ; Manatees; By the Pond ; Oxherding in the Chisos Mountains; IV. Particular Artifice; Boxes in Texas ; Inventing Cinema; Possibility ; Acknowledgments |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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<div><I>Possibility</I> translates life's disordered events into the orderly happiness of art. Subjects include manatees, Henry Adams, Texas, Proust, and <I>Vertigo.</I></div> |
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