How Literature Saved My Life - Paperback
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How Literature Saved My Life - Paperback
$20.00
by David Shields (Author)
Blending 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 Biography
David 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.
Number of Pages: 224
Dimensions: 0.7 x 8 x 5.2 IN
Publication Date: November 05, 2013
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