| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
viii, 228 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Summary |
"Like dispatches from another world, the twenty one essays in David Searcy's blazingly original Shame and Wonder are unfamiliar, profound, and haunting. Formerly a writer of literary horror, Searcy had essentially given up writing before he found himself drawn back--this time, to nonfiction--in his late sixties. Writing on a 1953 Olivetti typewriter in the spare Dallas studio he shares with his girlfriend, Searcy began writing, teasing out the Big Questions, from the nature of beauty and the beauty of nature, from the hidden depths of old Scrooge McDuck comics to childhood dreams of space travel. Expansive in scope but deeply personal in their perspective, his essays--in the tradition of Sebald and Benjamin--forge beautiful connections between ephemera and life, nostalgia and philosophy, history and home, to create intricate glittering constellations of words and ideas. Radiant and strange and suffused with longing, this collection is a work of true grace, wisdom, and joy." -- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
The Hudson River School -- El Camino Doloroso -- Mad science -- A futuristic writing desk -- Sexy girls near Dallas -- Didelphis Nuncius -- The depth of baseball sadness -- Santa in Anatolia -- How to color the grass -- Science fictions #1 -- Science fictions #2 (for C.W.) -- Science fictions #3 -- Nameless -- On watching the Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan documentary about Lewis and Clark on PBS -- Love in space -- An enchanted tree near Fredericksburg -- Cereal prizes -- Paper airplane fundamentals -- Cartoons -- Always shall have been -- Still life painting. |
| Subject |
Essays.
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| Genre |
Essays.
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| Added Title |
Essays. Selections
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| ISBN |
9780812993943 (hardcover) : $26.00 |
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0812993942 (hardcover) |
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