The canals of mars : a memoir / Gary Fincke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fincke, Gary.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Fincke, Gary--Childhood and youth.

Fincke, Gary.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (243 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Canals of Mars is a memoir that explores and ponders ""weakness,"" which in Gary Fincke's family was the catch-all term for every possible human flaw-physical, psychological, or spiritual. Fincke grew up near Pittsburgh during the 1950's and 1960's, raised by blue-collar parents for whom the problems that beset people-from alcoholism to nearsightedness to asthma to fear of heights-were nothing but weaknesses. In a highly engaging style, Fincke meditates on the disappointments he suffered-in his body, his mind, his work-because he was convinced that he had to be

Contents:

Contents; Beginnings; The Ass-End of Everything; The Plagues; Home Remedies; The Canals of Mars; Look Both Ways; The Theory of Dog Shit; God; God of Our Fathers; The Faces of Christ; Say It; The Technology of Paradise; Work; Clemente Stuff; The Handmade Court; In the Bakery; Union Grades; The Theory of Stinks; Useful Things; Weakness; Going Inside; Subsidence, Mine Fire, Bypass, Golf; Alcohol; Night Vision; Labored Breathing; Plummeting; Endings; My Father Told Me; The Piecework of Writing; Cemeteries; Looking Again: An Epilogue; Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-62895-149-4

1-60917-211-6

OCLC:

774285386