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

• Autore: Pritchard Melissa
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Bellevue Literary Press, 2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (209 p.)
• Disciplina: 808.02
• Soggetto topico: Authorship; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Storytelling; Languages & Literatures; Literature - General
• Classificazione: LCO010000BIO026000LAN005000LIT007000
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: A Solemn Pleasure
• ISBN: 1-934137-97-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823230503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Art of the Essay