{"product_id":"the-short-of-it-all-marc-zimmerman-9798330504220","title":"The Short of it All: Dreams and Scenes of Memoir Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"A beautiful and humorous fresco of a life converted into a literary project through memories and dreams made into fiction by the ... transformative act of writing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e.\" \u003c\/em\u003eLuis Alejandro Ordóñez\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eEl último New York Times.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"We're all imperfect and vulnerable.... Assuming our limitations ... with humor is ... an indisputable merit of [this] book.\" \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eÁngel Quintero Rivera\u003c\/strong\u003e, Professor, Universidad de Puerto Rico y author of \u003cem\u003eSalsa, Sabor y Control.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a tip of his hat to Kafka, M, the professor\/author protagonist of Marc Zimmerman's new book, lives his life haunted by problems with his weight and wives, his writing, teaching and ethnicity. Where does all this lead? What can one make of these dreams and scenes of memory fiction? This small book is one of dreams and scenes that have emerged in Zimmerman's pursuit of memoir fiction over the last several years. Some of the stories perhaps seem to be trivial, others are clearly more; but all of them, taken together, achieve some kind of ultimate depth. The stories stem from his boyhood memories and projections; from his anxieties throughout his career and his life as Jewish American and human being. Several stem from his years after retirement, when he faces the dread of being diminished, mocked or forgotten as he rushes toward the dark. ... These stories are really \"the short\" of what Zimmerman has written-the shortest of his all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"If memories are ultimately fiction, no matter how based on our experiences, then, memoirs are inevitably fictional representations of memory; and memoir fictions are the overt reworking of memory into aesthetically refracted narratives. Logically, then, memoir dream fictions are somehow the narrations of dreams and dreamlike scenes which throughout or in one moment or another, lead to the intervention of ... a... fictional trope which what we can remember of our dreams the substance and form required to somehow achieve status as 'literature.'\" \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarc Zimmerman\u003c\/strong\u003e, from \u003cem\u003eThe Short of it All\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor and editor of some forty-plus books, Marc Zimmerman is U. of Illinois at Chicago and U. of Houston Emeritus Professor. He has recently published several topic-driven books for the first cycle of his ongoing \"memoir fiction\" or autofiction Illusions of Memory series, including \u003cem\u003eMartin and Marvin\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLines on the Border\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Italian Daze\u003c\/em\u003e, and other tomes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marc Zimmerman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798330504220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Marc Zimmerman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/06\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d","brand":"Marc Zimmerman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48154002063615,"sku":"9798330504220","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5961eea9-a286-4b73-996c-dbb3bec9f90c.jpg?v=1770787232","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-short-of-it-all-marc-zimmerman-9798330504220","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}