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Informationen zum Autor Floyd Skloot is the author of five books of fiction, seven collections of poetry, a collection of essays, and three previous memoirs including In the Shadow of Memory and A World of Light, both available in Bison Books editions. He is the winner of three Pushcart Prizes, the most recent for his essay "The Voice of the Past," which appears in The Wink of the Zenith. Klappentext In his three previous memoirs, Floyd Skloot grappled with the brain-ravaging virus that struck him at forty-one. He was, as the "San Francisco Chronicle" noted, "shaping the experience of crippling illness into dazzling literature." How such alchemy is performed--where, in fact, the magic comes from--is the subject of Skloot's new book, a memoir of the making of a writer. Sifting through memories and observations to discover how circumstance and nature conspired to make him the writer he is, Skloot enacts in this book the very process he describes, the shaping of a writer's life. Among the influences of family and close friendship, experience and popular culture, he uncovers a unique and telling perspective on the forging of a writer's individual sensibility. At the same time, his book explores fundamental questions about how life shapes the creative spirit--and how, in turn the writer makes sense of it all and gives life a new and meaningful shape in the form of literature. Zusammenfassung Describes the shaping of a writer's life. This book explores fundamental questions about how life shapes the creative spirit - and how, in turn the writer makes sense of it all and gives life a new and meaningful shape in the form of literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Part One: Home Economics for Halfbacks1. Going, Going, Gone 2. The Wink of the Zenith 3. The Summer of the Vampire 4. Cover Stories 5. Home Economics for Halfbacks Part Two: When the Clock Stops6. When the Clock Stops 7. Into a Maelstrom of Fire: On Having a Feeling for Thomas Hardy 8. Echo Lark 9. Numbers 10. Running After My Father Part Three: Travels in Lavender and Light11. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered 12. The Voice of the Past 13. Shine On 14. Travels in Lavender and Light 15. Jambon Dreams 16. Flesh and Fortune: Coming Back to Measure for Measure Epilogue: Silence the Pianos ...
