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Happy vagrancy : essays from an easy chair / Sam Pickering.
Van Pelt Library PS3566.I25 H26 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pickering, Sam, 1941- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Essays. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pickering, Sam, 1941-.
- Pickering, Sam.
- Nature.
- Writing.
- Life.
- Old age.
- Physical Description:
- 173 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2015]
- Summary:
- "This volume includes many ruminations on nature, the nature of writing, mortality, and human folly and near folly, rendered in prose that is often poetic and deeply entwined in the author's intertextual web of influences, which vary from low brow to a very high forehead indeed" -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- By the book
- Solitude
- Two kinds
- I am not unhappy, I
- I am not unhappy, II
- Reunion
- Ins and outs of it
- Hanging in there
- Happiness
- Palm
- Afterword.
- ISBN:
- 9781621901860
- 1621901866
- OCLC:
- 898066444
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