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Gathering Noise from My Life: A Camouflaged Memoir
University of Iowa Press, 2012 eISBN: 978-1-60938-224-7 | Paper: 978-1-60938-111-0 Library of Congress Classification PS3601.N54Z46 2012 Dewey Decimal Classification 813.6
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The noise gathered from a lifetime of engaging with war, race, religion, memory, illness, and family echoes through the vignettes, quotations, graffiti, and poetry that Donald Anderson musters here, fragments of the humor and horror of life, the absurdities that mock reason and the despair that yields laughter. Gathering Noise from My Life offers sonic shards of a tune at once jaunty and pessimistic, hopeful and hopeless, and a model for how we can make sense of the scraps of our lives. “We are where we’ve been and what we’ve read,” the author says, and gives us his youth in Montana, the family tradition of boxing, careers in writing and fighting, the words of Mike Tyson, Frederick the Great, Fran Lebowitz, and Shakespeare. In his camouflaged memoir, the award-winning short-story writer cobbles together the sources of the vision of life he has accrued as a consequence of his six decades of living and reading. See other books on: 1946 July 9- | Anderson, Donald | Biography & Autobiography | My Life | Personal Memoirs See other titles from University of Iowa Press |
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Gathering Noise from My Life: A Camouflaged Memoir
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University of Iowa Press, 2012
eISBN: 978-1-60938-224-7
Paper: 978-1-60938-111-0
eISBN: 978-1-60938-224-7
Paper: 978-1-60938-111-0
The noise gathered from a lifetime of engaging with war, race, religion, memory, illness, and family echoes through the vignettes, quotations, graffiti, and poetry that Donald Anderson musters here, fragments of the humor and horror of life, the absurdities that mock reason and the despair that yields laughter. Gathering Noise from My Life offers sonic shards of a tune at once jaunty and pessimistic, hopeful and hopeless, and a model for how we can make sense of the scraps of our lives. “We are where we’ve been and what we’ve read,” the author says, and gives us his youth in Montana, the family tradition of boxing, careers in writing and fighting, the words of Mike Tyson, Frederick the Great, Fran Lebowitz, and Shakespeare. In his camouflaged memoir, the award-winning short-story writer cobbles together the sources of the vision of life he has accrued as a consequence of his six decades of living and reading.
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