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Détails
| Genre/forme : | Miscellanea |
|---|---|
| Personne nommée : | Dinty W Moore |
| Type d’ouvrage : | Biographie, Publication gouvernementale, Publication gouvernementale provinciale ou d'état, Ressource Internet |
| Format : | Livre, Ressource Internet |
| Tous les auteurs / collaborateurs : |
Dinty W Moore |
| ISBN : | 9780803211490 080321149X |
| Numéro OCLC : | 141188020 |
| Notes : | Includes index. |
| Description : | xv, 140 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contenu : | Prologue: between panic and desire -- Panic -- Introduction: hello, my name is -- Son of Mr. Green Jeans: a meditation on missing fathers -- Double vision -- Son of Richard M. Nixon -- Three bad trips, 1968-77 -- Questions and activities before continuing -- Paranoia -- Introduction: imagine that -- Baseball, hot dogs, mescaline, and Chevrolet -- Number nine -- 1984 -- Questions and activities before continuing -- Desire -- Introduction: why Oprah doesn't call -- Son of George McManus -- Three milestones -- Leonard Koan -- Son of a Bush -- Three days in September -- What you want, what you get, what you need: a post-Nixon, post-panic, post-modern, post-mortem -- "Curtis knows best": towering, permanent, perilous, and soon to be televised on a widescreen near you -- The final chapter -- Index -- About the author. |
| Titre de collection : | American lives. |
| Responsabilité : | Dinty W. Moore. |
| Plus d’informations : |
Critiques
Synopsis de l’éditeur
"Hear that? That is the sweet sonic boom of the Baby Boom barrier being broken by this elegant flight of essays launched from the steely hand of Captain Dinty W. Moore in his remarkable memoir Between Panic and Desire. Impossible, they said, to reveal this precisely that sense of time, place, and even space. Listen: Read, read, read. Words away! That 's it. Exactly. Like that." Michael Martone, author of Michael Martone "Dinty W. Moore's prose is crisp and clean, his insights sparkle with biting clarity and magnetic charm. This is an unusual, joyful and compelling memoir." Lee Gutkind, author of Almost Human: Making Robots Think and editor of Creative Nonfiction "This is a refreshing and invigorating book, taking the predictable memoir form in new directions - playfully,sincerely,and intelligently. This is a terrific book." Bret Lott, author of Jewel Lire la suite...
