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The Fall.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nurkse, D.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City and town life--Poetry.
- City and town life.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.
- Summary:
- In this elegant collection, D.Nurkse elegizes a lost father, a foreshortened childhood, and a young marriage.From the drenched lawns of suburbia to the streets of Brooklyn, he delivers up the small but crucial epiphanies that propel an American coming-of-age and chronicles the development of a tender yet exacting consciousness.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Other Books by This Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Prologue
- The Threshold
- I
- Sunlight
- Treasures of the Cove
- Northbound
- The Play Hour
- Initials
- First Date
- Red-and-Silver Schwinn
- The Migraine
- The Dog
- Pennies for Flies
- Left Field
- The Rules of the Game
- The Hellmann's Jar
- Darkness
- Born Again
- Paradise
- Jumping Off the Fire Tower for Laura
- Bread and Wine
- At the Stage of Riddles
- Under the Porch
- The Fall
- Cat's-Eye
- II
- An Opening in the Largest City
- At Payless
- Empire Boulevard
- The Engagement
- Riding West with Laura
- Black River
- The Stone House at Black River
- Honeymoon in Varia
- Leaving Zaragoza
- The Formal Gardens at Coimbra
- Riches of the Interior
- Marriage in the Infinite City
- The Rapture
- Custody Wars
- The Part
- A Couple in Garden City
- The Wilson Avenue Kings
- Saint Peter's Basement
- Lucky Ford
- The Tower Overlooking the City
- A Path in Grace
- III
- Music from an Inner Room
- The Book of Splendor
- The Prognosis
- At Mary Magdalene
- Back Wards
- At Holy Name
- The Waiting Room
- How We Are Made Light
- Tests
- The Gift
- Mercy
- Side Effects of Colirium
- A Night at Mount Sinai
- The Parasite
- A Prayer for Patience in Sickness
- Saint Anthony's Grounds
- Leaving Mary Magdalene
- A Note About the Author.
- Notes:
- Preliminaries omitted.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-307-52336-5
- 1-299-10972-1
- OCLC:
- 842874534
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