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The Canals of Mars: A Memoir
Michigan State University Press, 2010 eISBN: 978-1-60917-211-4 | Paper: 978-0-87013-880-5 Library of Congress Classification PS3556.I457Z46 2010 Dewey Decimal Classification 813.54
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The Canals of Mars is a memoir that explores and ponders "weakness," which in Gary Fincke's family was the catch-all term for every possible human flaw-physical, psychological, or spiritual. Fincke grew up near Pittsburgh during the 1950s and 1960s, raised by blue-collar parents for whom the problems that beset people-from alcoholism to nearsightedness to asthma to fear of heights-were nothing but weaknesses. See other books on: Canals | Childhood and youth | Fincke, Gary | Mars | Memoir See other titles from Michigan State University Press |
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The Canals of Mars: A Memoir
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Michigan State University Press, 2010
eISBN: 978-1-60917-211-4
Paper: 978-0-87013-880-5
eISBN: 978-1-60917-211-4
Paper: 978-0-87013-880-5
The Canals of Mars is a memoir that explores and ponders "weakness," which in Gary Fincke's family was the catch-all term for every possible human flaw-physical, psychological, or spiritual. Fincke grew up near Pittsburgh during the 1950s and 1960s, raised by blue-collar parents for whom the problems that beset people-from alcoholism to nearsightedness to asthma to fear of heights-were nothing but weaknesses.
In a highly engaging style, Fincke meditates on the disappointments he suffered-in his body, his mind, his work-because he was convinced that he had to be "perfect." Anything less than perfection was weakness and no one, he understood from an early age, wants to be weak.
Six of the chapters in the book have been cited in Best American Essays. The chapter that provides the book's title, The Canals of Mars, won a Pushcart Prize and was included in The Pushcart Book of Essays: The Best Essays from a Quarter Century of the Pushcart Prize.
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