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Sto caricando le informazioni... A Private History of Awedi Scott Russell Sanders
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I'm a great fan of libraries. I rarely read a book that I want to buy, but this book fits in that category. It's just beautifully written. Now that I've read it completely I want to purchase it so that I can take it off the shelf, open it to any page to read and enjoy. ( ) Scott Russell Sanders spent his first five years on a small farm outside of Memphis where the natural world taught him some of his earliest lessons and an older boy awakened him to racial prejudice. He was also awakened to an atmosphere of shame as his parents fought over his father’s problem with alcohol. Later, Sanders falls in love with science along with a girl from Indiana named Ruth, his future wife. But, he turns from physics to the study of literature and discovers a way to articulate his experiences with awe. Sanders writes eloquently of his overwhelming love of family and the natural world. Between his reflections on the cycle of decline and renewal, his mother’s disappearance into Alzheimer’s disease and his baby granddaughter’s awakening to the world, he tells the important stories in his life’s journey. An author of essays and novels, Sanders teaches on the faculty of Indiana University. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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"When Scott Russell Sanders was four, his father held him in his arms during a thunderstorm, and he felt awe - "the tingle of a power that surges through bone and rain and everything." He writes, "The search for communion with this power has run like a bright thread through all my days."" "A Private History of Awe is an account of his search, told as a series of dramatic, spiritually charged episodes: his early memory of watching a fire with his father; his attraction to the solemn cadences of the Bible despite his frustration with Sunday-school religion; his discovery of books and the body; his mounting opposition to the Vietnam War and all forms of violence; his decision, after the heady experience of education at Brown and Cambridge, to return to the Midwest and raise a family in the place of his roots." "In many ways, this is the story of a generation's passage through the 1960s - from innocence to experience, from euphoria to disillusionment. But Sanders has found a language that captures the transcendence in ordinary lives while never resorting to formula. And by framing his recollections with present-day accounts of tending to his ailing mother and his newborn granddaughter, he weaves his story into the larger history of his family, illuminating the cycles of life that bind together generations."--BOOK JACKET. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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