Unpleasantries (eBook)

Considerations of Difficult Questions

Frank Soos (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
208 Seiten
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
978-0-295-80670-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Even from upside-down in his recently flipped truck, Frank Soos reveals himself to be ruminative, grappling with the limitations of language to express the human condition. Moving quicklyskiing in the dark or taking long summer bike rides on Alaska highwaysSoos combines an active physical life with a dark and difficult interior existence, wrestling the full span of thinking and doing onto the page with surprising lightness. His meditations move from fly-fishing in dangerously swift Alaska rivers to memories of the liars and dirty-joke tellers of his small-town Virginia childhood, revealing insights in new encounters and old preoccupations. Soos writes about pain and despair, aging, his divorce, his fathers passing, regret, the loss of home, and the fear of death. But in the process of confronting these dark topics, he is full of wonder. As he writes at the end of an account of almost drowning, Bruised but whole, I was alive, alive, alive.

Autor

Frank Soos is the Alaska State Writer Laureate, 2015–2016. He taught writing at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, from 1986 until 2004. His publications include Double Moon: Constructions and Conversations (with Margo Klass), Bamboo Fly Rod Suite (essays), and Unified Field Theory (stories).

Inhalt

PrefaceAnother Kind of Loneliness Mont Sainte-Victoire, Approximately I Held Their Coats: A Study of Two JokesA Little IliadObituary with Bamboo Fly RodUpside-Down with Borges and Bob Meditation on My Cousin Lou, Dead at Thirty-Three Glamour and Romance Other People’s Pain and My Own The Man on the Bridge Naked to the World Dead Animals I Have Known Why Is It That We Do This? Driving Directions to the Homes of the Dead Some Fibbers No Place Like Falling In I Built a Little Boat; or, The Necessity of Failure Kinds of Ambition Acknowledgments

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.8.2016
• Verlagsort: Seattle
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Reisen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Trennung / Trauer
• ISBN-10: 0-295-80670-2 / 0295806702
• ISBN-13: 978-0-295-80670-9 / 9780295806709