Unpleasantries

Considerations of Difficult Questions

Frank Soos (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2016
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
978-0-295-99840-4 (ISBN)

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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 quickly—skiing in the dark or taking long summer bike rides on Alaska highways—Soos 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 father’s 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.”

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).

Preface

Another Kind of Loneliness

Mont Sainte-Victoire, Approximately

I Held Their Coats: A Study of Two Jokes

A Little Iliad

Obituary with Bamboo Fly Rod

Upside-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

Erscheinungsdatum	28.05.2016
Reihe/Serie	Unpleasantries
Verlagsort	Seattle
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	386 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
	Reiseführer ► Nord- / Mittelamerika ► USA
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Trennung / Trauer
ISBN-10	0-295-99840-7 / 0295998407
ISBN-13	978-0-295-99840-4 / 9780295998404
Zustand	Neuware