| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 231 pages) |
| Contents |
Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknolwedgments; Going, Going, Gone; The Wink of the Zenith; The Summer of the Vampire; Cover Stories; Home Economics for Halfbacks; When the Clock Stops; Into a Maelstrom of Fire: On Having a Feeling for Thomas Hardy; Echo Lark; Numbers; Running After My Father; Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered; The Voice of the Past; Shine On; Travels in Lavender and Light; Jambon Dreams; Flesh and Fortune: Coming Back to Measure for Measure; Epilogue: Silence the Pianos |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Skloot, Floyd -- Childhood and youth
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| SUBJECT |
Skloot, Floyd fast |
| Subject |
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Childhood and youth of a person
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Authors, American
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0803218591 |
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9780803218598 |
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1281958239 |
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9781281958235 |
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