Other People: Takes & Mistakes by Shields, David

Other People: Takes & Mistakes (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780804169851)

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Format: Paperback
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Other People: Takes & Mistakes by Shields, David

Other People: Takes & Mistakes

$17.00
Other People: Takes & Mistakes by Shields, David

Other People: Takes & Mistakes

$17.00
Format: Paperback
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Other People is something of a revelation: seventy-plus essays that form neither a miscellany nor a memoir but an intellectually thrilling and emotionally wrenching investigation of otherness.

Can one person know another person? How do we live through other people? Is it possible to fill the gap between people? If not, what function does art serve? Whether he is writing about sexual desire or information sickness, George W. Bush or Kurt Cobain, women's eyeglasses or Greek tragedy, Howard Cosell or Bill Murray, the comedy of high school journalism or the agony of first love, Shields sustains a piercing focus on the multiplicity of perspectives, the irreducible log jam of human information, and the possibilities and impossibilities for human connection.

Author: David Shields
ISBN-10: 0804169853
ISBN-13: 9780804169851
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 01/16/2018
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.80d
By David Shields
By David Shields
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David Shields is the author of twenty 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 best seller), and Black Planet (finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award). The recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, Shields has published essays and stories in The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Esquire, The Yale Review, Salon, Slate, McSweeney's, and The Believer. His work has been translated into twenty languages.

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