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How Literature Saved My Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780345802729)
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xBlending confessional criticism and cultural autobiography, David Shields explores the power of literature to make life survivable, maybe even endurable. Evoking his deeply divided personality, his character flaws, his woes, his serious despair, he wants "literature to assuage human loneliness, but nothing can assuage human loneliness. Literature doesn't lie about this--which is what makes it essential." This is a captivating, thought-provoking, utterly original book about the essential acts of reading and writing.
Author: David Shields
ISBN-10: 0345802721
ISBN-13: 9780345802729
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 11/05/2013
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.70d
By David Shields
xDavid Shields is the author of thirteen previous books, including Reality Hunger (named one of the best books of 2010 by more than thirty publications), The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead (New York Times bestseller), Black Planet (National Book Critics Circle Award finalist), and Remote (winner of the PEN/Revson Award). He has published essays and stories in numerous periodicals, including The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Yale Review, The Village Voice, Salon, Slate, McSweeney's, and The Believer. His work has been translated into fifteen languages.
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