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The wink of the zenith : the shaping of a writer's life / Floyd Skloot.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Skloot, Floyd.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Skloot, Floyd--Childhood and youth.
- Skloot, Floyd.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (252 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In his three previous memoirs, Floyd Skloot grappled with the brain-ravaging virus that struck him at forty-one. He was, as the San Francisco Chronicle noted, "shaping the experience of crippling illness into dazzling literature." How such alchemy is performed-where, in fact, the magic comes from-is the subject of Skloot's new book, a memoir of the making of a writer.
- Contents:
- Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknolwedgments; Going, Going, Gone; The Wink of the Zenith; The Summer of the Vampire; Cover Stories; Home Economics for Halfbacks; When the Clock Stops; Into a Maelstrom of Fire: On Having a Feeling for Thomas Hardy; Echo Lark; Numbers; Running After My Father; Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered; The Voice of the Past; Shine On; Travels in Lavender and Light; Jambon Dreams; Flesh and Fortune: Coming Back to Measure for Measure; Epilogue: Silence the Pianos
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-95823-9
- 9786611958237
- 0-8032-1859-1
- OCLC:
- 316689094
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