Title:
How literature saved my life / David Shields.
Author:
Shields, David, 1956-
Publication Information:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
Call Number:
PS3569 .H4834 Z469 2013
Abstract:
Blends criticism, anthropology, and biography to celebrate the power of literature, concluding that the fundamental truths found in literature render it an essential component of life.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780307961525
9780307802729
Physical Description:
207 pages ; 22 cm.
General Note:
"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
Contents:
Negotiating against myself -- Love is a long, close scrutiny -- Why is the human animal so sad? -- Our ground time here will be brief -- The wound and the bow -- All great books wind up with the writer getting his teeth bashed in -- Life v. art -- How literature saved my life.
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