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Informationen zum Autor Douglas Bauer is the author of several books, including Prairie City, Iowa: Three Seasons at Home (Iowa, 2008), The Stuff of Fiction: Advice on Craft , and three novels, Dexterity, The Very Air, and The Book of Famous Iowans . His edited works include Death by Pad Thai and Other Unforgettable Meals and Prime Times: Writers on Their Favorite Television Shows . Named the Public Library Foundation of Iowa's Outstanding Writer in 2003, he has also won grants from the National Endowment for the Arts in both fiction and creative nonfiction. He lives in Boston and teaches literature at Bennington College. Klappentext What is life about but the continuous posing of the questions: what happens next! and what do we make of it when it arrives? In these highly evocative personal essays! Douglas Bauer weaves together the stories of his own and his parents' lives! the meals they ate! the work and rewards and regrets that defined them! and the inevitable betrayal by their bodies as they aged. Zusammenfassung What is life about but the continuous posing of the questions: what happens next, and what do we make of it when it arrives? In these highly evocative personal essays, Douglas Bauer weaves together the stories of his own and his parents’ lives, the meals they ate, the work and rewards and regrets that defined them, and the inevitable betrayal by their bodies as they aged.
