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Meditations from a movable chair : essays / by Andre Dubus.
LIBRA PS3554.U265 Z47 1999 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dubus, Andre, 1936-1999.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dubus, Andre, 1936-1999.
- Dubus, Andre.
- Novelists, American--20th century--Biography.
- Novelists, American.
- People with disabilities--Biography.
- People with disabilities.
- American essays.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Essays.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 209 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First Vintage Contemporaries edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 1999.
- Summary:
- Confined to a wheelchair since a 1986 accident, Dubus has known--and candidly depicts in this collection of 25 luminous essays--despair, acceptance, and the healing power of faith.
- Contents:
- About Kathryn
- Legs
- Letter to a writers' workshop
- Digging
- Imperiled men
- A Hemingway story
- Grace
- Mailer at the Algonquin
- Brothers
- Good-bye to Richard Yates
- Sacraments
- Bodily mysteries
- A country road song
- Carrying
- Girls
- Liv Ullmann in spring
- Love in the morning
- Song of pity
- Communion
- First books
- Letter to Amtrak
- Autumn legs
- Giving up the gun
- Messages
- Witness.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : A.A. Knopf, c1998.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Dubus, Andre, 1936-1999. Meditations from a movable chair.
- ISBN:
- 0679751157
- 9780679751151
- OCLC:
- 41269221
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