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How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences - Sue William Silverman

How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences

Buch | Softcover
222 Seiten
2020
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-1409-6 (ISBN)
CHF 29,90 inkl. MwSt
In these thematically linked pieces, Sue William Silverman explores the fear of death, and her desire to survive it, through gallows humor, realism, and speculation. Although defeating death is physically impossible, language, commemoration, and metaphor can offer slivers of transcendent immortality.
 
2021 Clara Johnson Award from Jane's Stories Press Foundation 
2020 Gold Winner for Autobiography & Memoir in the Foreword INDIES

Many are haunted and obsessed by their own eventual deaths, but perhaps no one as much as Sue William Silverman. This thematically linked collection of essays charts Silverman’s attempt to confront her fears of that ultimate unknown. Her dread was fomented in part by a sexual assault, hidden for years, that led to an awareness that death and sex are in some ways inextricable, an everyday reality many women know too well.
              
Through gallows humor, vivid realism, and fantastical speculation, How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences explores this fear of death and the author’s desire to survive it. From cruising New Jersey’s industry-blighted landscape in a gold Plymouth to visiting the emergency room for maladies both real and imagined to suffering the stifling strictness of an intractable piano teacher, Silverman guards her memories for the same reason she resurrects archaic words—to use as talismans to ward off the inevitable. Ultimately, Silverman knows there is no way to survive death physically. Still, through language, commemoration, and metaphor, she searches for a sliver of transcendent immortality.

Sue William Silverman is a memoirist, poet, and teacher of writing at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has published several books, including Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You; Love Sick: One Woman’s Journey through Sexual Addiction; The Pat Boone Fan Club: My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew (Nebraska, 2014); and Fearless Confessions: A Writer’s Guide to Memoir.  

Author’s Note    
Ultima Thule    

Fate 1
Clotho
spins the thread of life
The Eternal Reign of Miss Route 17    
13 Ways of Surviving New Jersey    
Miss Route 17 Refuses to Grow Old    
The Three Fates: How Much Is the Moon Worth?     
The Remarkable Death-Defying Exploits of Miss Route 17    
Until My Number Comes Up    
Requiem for a Qwertyist    
My Death in the Family    
The Three Fates: Drawing the Shades    
A Member of the Wedding    

Fate 2
Lachesis
measures the thread of life to determine how long you live
The Sick Hypochondriac    
The Three Fates: On Tedium    
The Safe Side    
My Life as a Thanatologist    
The Janet Leigh Variations    
The Summer of Hate and Death    
Here Be Human Dragons    
Miss Route 17’s Near-Death Experience under the Boardwalk at the New Jersey Shore    
Sigilisms of Miss Route 17’s Many Hidden Talents    
Death Comes for the Poet    
Flirting with the Butcher    
The Three Fates and the Barefoot Angels    

Fate 3
Atropos
cuts the thread of life with a pair of shears to decide how someone dies
At the Terminal Gate    
Miss Route 17’s Own Graceland    
Memorabilia: My Guardian Devils and the Phantom of the Opera Gloves    
The Three Fates: When You Go    
Of Chrysanthemums, Tupperware, Cremated Remains, and FedEx-ing to the Great Beyond    
Miss Route 17’s Blue Period    
The Three Fates: Filling in the Blanks    
On the Reliance of Verbs to Survive Death    
The Queen of Panmnesia    

Acknowledgments    
Notes    
 

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie American Lives
Verlagsort Lincoln
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Literatur Comic / Humor / Manga Humor / Satire
ISBN-10 1-4962-1409-9 / 1496214099
ISBN-13 978-1-4962-1409-6 / 9781496214096
Zustand Neuware
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