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Buch (Softcover): Belletristik
Essays After Eighty
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P36035124
EAN: 9780544570313
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Beschreibung
"Alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny. "-New York Times "Deliciously readable. Donald Hall, if abandoned by the muse of poetry, has wrought his prose to a keen autumnal edge. " - Wall Street Journal His entire life, Donald Hall has dedicated himself to the written word, putting together a storied career as a poet, essayist, and memoirist. Now, in the "unknown, unanticipated galaxy" of very old age, he is writing essays that startle, move, and delight. In Essays After Eighty, Hall ruminates on his past: "thirty was terrifying, forty I never noticed because I was drunk, fifty was best with a total change of life, sixty extended the bliss of fifty. " He also addresses his present: "When I turned eighty and rubbed testosterone on my chest, my beard roared like a lion and gained four inches. " Most memorably, Hall writes about his enduring love affair with his ancestral Eagle Pond Farm and with the writing life that sustains him every day: "Yesterday my first nap was at 9:30 a. m. , but when I awoke I wrote again. " "Alluring, inspirational hominess. Essays After Eighty is a treasure. balancing frankness about losses with humor and gratitude. " - Washington Post "A fine book of remembering all sorts of things past, Essays After Eighty is to be treasured. " - Boston Globe
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Donald Hall
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2015
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 144