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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823230503321

Autore

Pritchard Melissa

Titolo

A Solemn Pleasure [[electronic resource] ] : To Imagine, Witness, and Write

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Bellevue Literary Press, 2015

ISBN

1-934137-97-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Collana

The Art of the Essay

Classificazione

LCO010000BIO026000LAN005000LIT007000

Disciplina

808.02

Soggetti

Authorship

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Storytelling

Languages & Literatures

Literature - General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; A Room in London; Spirit and Vision; From the Deep South to the Desert South: An Epiphyte's Confession; On Kaspar Hauser; Time and Biology: On the Threshold of the Sacred; Elephant in the Dark; The Gift of Warwick; Doxology; A Solemn Pleasure; A Graven Space; Decomposing Articles of Faith; Finding Ashton; "Still, God Helps You": Memories of a Sudanese Child Slave; Circle of Friends; On Bibliomancy, Anthropodermic Bibliopegy, and the Eating Papers;  or, Proust's Porridge; Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

Melissa Pritchard is the author of eight books of fiction, including the novel Palmerino and the story collection The Odditorium, as well as the essay collection A Solemn Pleasure (forthcoming from Bellevue Literary Press in 2015). Among other honors, her books have received the Flannery O'Connor, Janet Heidinger Kafka, and Carl Sandburg awards and two of her short fiction collections were New York Times Notable Book and Editors' Choice selections. Pritchard has worked as a journalist in Afghanistan, India, and Ethiopia, and her nonfiction has appeared in various publications, including O, The