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The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer's Life (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780803211193)
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xIn his three previous memoirs, Floyd Skloot grappled with the brain-ravaging virus that struck him at forty-one. He was, as the San Francisco Chronicle noted, "shaping the experience of crippling illness into dazzling literature." How such alchemy is performed--where, in fact, the magic comes from--is the subject of Skloot's new book, a memoir of the making of a writer.
Sifting through memories and observations to discover how circumstance and nature conspired to make him the writer he is, Skloot enacts in this book the very process he describes, the shaping of a writer's life. Among the influences of family and close friendship, experience and popular culture, he uncovers a unique and telling perspective on the forging of a writer's individual sensibility. At the same time, his book explores fundamental questions about how life shapes the creative spirit--and how, in turn the writer makes sense of it all and gives life a new and meaningful shape in the form of literature.
Author: Floyd Skloot
ISBN-10: 0803211198
ISBN-13: 9780803211193
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2008
Pages: 252
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 8.76h x 6.28w x 0.93d
Award: Oregon Book Awards - Finalist
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/30/2008 pg. 169
Library Journal 09/01/2008 pg. 127
Booklist 09/01/2008 pg. 25
Shelf Awareness 01/01/0001
Sifting through memories and observations to discover how circumstance and nature conspired to make him the writer he is, Skloot enacts in this book the very process he describes, the shaping of a writer's life. Among the influences of family and close friendship, experience and popular culture, he uncovers a unique and telling perspective on the forging of a writer's individual sensibility. At the same time, his book explores fundamental questions about how life shapes the creative spirit--and how, in turn the writer makes sense of it all and gives life a new and meaningful shape in the form of literature.
Author: Floyd Skloot
ISBN-10: 0803211198
ISBN-13: 9780803211193
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2008
Pages: 252
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 8.76h x 6.28w x 0.93d
Award: Oregon Book Awards - Finalist
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/30/2008 pg. 169
Library Journal 09/01/2008 pg. 127
Booklist 09/01/2008 pg. 25
Shelf Awareness 01/01/0001
By Floyd Skloot
xFloyd Skloot is the author of four novels, most recently Patient 002; six collections of poetry, including The End of Dreams; a collection of essays; and three previous memoirs. He is the winner of three Pushcart Prizes, the most recent for his essay, "The Voice of the Past," which appears in The Wink of the Zenith. His memoir In the Shadow of Memory (available in a Bison Books edition) was named a Best of 2003 nonfiction title by the Chicago Tribune and was a 2003 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award nonfiction finalist. His memoir A World of Light (Nebraska 2005) was a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice selection for 2005.
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