Possibility : essays against despair / Patricia Vigderman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vigderman, Patricia, 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American essays--21st century.

American essays.

American literature--21st century.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (153 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Louisville, Kentucky : Sarabande Books, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<div><I>Possibility</I> translates life's disordered events into the orderly happiness of art. Subjects include manatees, Henry Adams, Texas, Proust, and <I>Vertigo.</I></div>

Contents:

Contents; Introduction: Seeing Double ; I. Internal Conversations ; The Task of the Translator ; A Writer's Harvest; Sebald in Starbucks; Eye Shadows; Monkey Mind ; Henry Adams in Japan ; II. The Measure of Grief; Genealogy (January 29); Dixie Diary ; The Other Side; My Depressed Person (A Monologue) ; Not Exactly Kaddish ; Grace Paley Reading ; III. At Liberty ; Eggs; Tapping Back ; What It's Like in Ohio ; Manatees; By the Pond ; Oxherding in the Chisos Mountains; IV. Particular Artifice; Boxes in Texas ; Inventing Cinema; Possibility ; Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-936747-53-7

OCLC:

853359586