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  • - A Basketball Life in Ninety-five Essays
    af Brian Doyle
    223,95 - 318,95 kr.

    In this collection of short essays, Brian Doyle presents a compelling account of a life lived playing, watching, loving, and coaching basketball. He recounts his passion for the gyms, the playgrounds, the sounds and scents, the camaraderie, the fierce competition, the anticipation and exhaustion, and even some of the injuries.

  • - Kudzu, Cockroaches, and Other Misfits of Ecology
    af Clinton Crockett Peters
    278,95 kr.

    Profiles invasive or unwanted species in the natural world and examines how our treatment of these creatures sometimes parallels in surprising ways how we treat each other. Part essay, part nature writing, part narrative nonfiction, as the chapters in Pandora's Garden unfold, they blend together like ecotones.

  • af Andrew Menard
    298,95 kr.

    Offers an intimate intellectual walk with America's most edgy and original environmentalist. The thrust of the book consists not in learning "about" Thoreau from an intermediary but, as the title suggests, in learning "from" Thoreau along with the author.

  • - Essays on Fatherhood, with Diagrams
    af Dustin Parsons
    278,95 kr.

    This memoir distinguishes itself from others in its ""graphic"" elements - the appropriated diagrams, instructions, and ""exploded view"" inventory images - that Parsons has used. They help guide the reader's understanding of the piece, giving them a visual anchor for the story,and add a technical aspect to the lyric essays that they hold.

  • af Debra Monroe
    223,95 - 273,95 kr.

    A misfit in Spooner, Wisconsin, with its farms, bars, and strip joints, Debra Monroe leaves to earn a degree, then another, and another, and builds a career. Both the story of her steady rise into the professional class and a parallel history of unsuitable exes, this memoir reminds us how accidental even a good life can be.

  • af Sonja Livingston
    223,95 - 283,95 kr.

    At the Dreamland, women and girls flicker from the shadows to take their proper place in the spotlight. In this lyrical collection, Sonja Livingston weaves together strands of research and imagination to conjure figures from history, literature, legend, and personal memory.

  • - Arias, Choruses, Lullabies, Follies, Dirges, and a Duet
    af Michael Martone
    278,95 kr.

    This collection of more than twenty-five essays, both meditative and formally inventive, considers all kinds of subjects: everyday objects such as keys and hats, plus concepts of time and place; the memoir; writing; the essay itself; and Michael Martone's friendship with the writers David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen, and Kurt Vonnegut.

  • - Legacy and Longing in the Antarctic
    af Justin Gardiner
    278,95 kr.

    In February 2010, with the help of a friend, Justin Gardiner boarded a ship bound for Antarctica. A stowaway of sorts, Gardiner used his experiences as the narrative backdrop for this compelling firsthand account that breathes new life into the nineteenth-century journals of Antarctic explorers such as Captain Scott and Ernest Shackleton.

  • - Essays
    af Emily Arnason Casey
    278,95 kr.

    In haunting prose that will follow you for days to come, Made Holy tells the story of the American family. Love, loss, and addiction entwine in this moving debut collection.

  • af Sarah Gorham
    278,95 kr.

    Sarah Gorham recounts her childhood education as a rebellious, insecure, angry girl shipped overseas to a tiny international school perched on a mountain shelf in Bernese-Oberland, Switzerland. There, boot camp style, she experienced deprivation, acute embarrassment, and keen educational guidance, all in the name of growing up.

  • af Tracy Daugherty
    298,95 kr.

    Considers the principles of literary art in a series of essays that focus on the nature of artistic vision and the creative individual's relationship to the world. The book reads like a master class on writing as practice, while performing a deep reading of art and life and looking to discern why liberal education matters so much to our society.

  • - The Revival of a Southern Oyster
    af Andre Joseph Gallant
    278,95 - 368,95 kr.

    Oysters are a narrative food: in each shuck and slurp, an eater tastes the place where the animal was raised. But that's just the beginning. Andre Joseph Gallant uses the bivalve as a jumping of point to tell the story of a changing southeastern coast, the bounty within its waters, and what the future may hold for the area and its fishers.

  • - An American Male in His Seventies
    af Lee Gutkind
    243,95 - 328,95 kr.

  • - Essays
    af Sejal Shah
    223,95 kr.

    In the linked essays that make up her debut collection, Sejal Shah explores culture, language, family, and place. Throughout, Shah reflects on what it means to make oneself visible and legible through writing in a country that struggles with race and maps her identity as an American, South Asian American, writer of colour, and feminist.

  • - Found and Lost in the Peaks of America and Japan
    af Clinton Crockett Peters
    278,95 kr.

  • - A Writer's Life in El Norte
    af Cecile Pineda
    278,95 kr.

    Cecile Pineda - award-winning novelist, memoirist, theatre director, performer, activist - felt rootlessness throughout much of her life. In Entry without Introspection, Pineda reconciles her past while tracing how she formed her own identity through prose and theatre in the absence of known roots.

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