'A work of genius' Ben Fountain 'A bittersweet book, but also a sharp and profoundly wise one' Herald 'Searcy writes with an urgency that makes his essays matter. Where the shame comes in is not certain, but the wonder is that you begin a year having never heard of an author then, two weeks in, his words are lodged in your consciousness and you are telling everybody you know to read his book' Independent Like dispatches from another world, the twenty-one essays in David Searcy's debut collection Shame and Wonder are unfamiliar, profound and haunting. In his late sixties, the Texan author David Searcy became drawn to non-fiction, writing 'straight-up', on note pad and manual typewriter, a series of disparate thoughts and interests. These unframed apprehensions, as he called them - of forgotten baseball fields, childhood dreams of space travel, the bedtime stories he'd invent for his young children - evolved into a sequence of extraordinary essays probing the pivots and pathways of his life, and puzzling out what they might mean. Expansive in scope, but deeply personal in their perspective, the pieces in Shame and Wonder forge beautiful connections that make the everyday seem almost extraterrestrial, creating intricate and glittering constellations of words and ideas. Radiant and strange and suffused with longing, this collection is a work of true grace, wisdom and joy.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cornerstone
ISBN-13
9781785150449
eBay Product ID (ePID)
224830460
Product Key Features
Book Title
Shame and Wonder
Author
David Searcy
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literary Theory
Publication Year
2016
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
222mm
Item Width
144mm
Item Weight
446g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
David Searcy
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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