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Meditations from a Movable Chair: Essays
Contributor(s): Dubus, Andre (Author)
ISBN: 0679751157     ISBN-13: 9780679751151
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: April 1999
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Annotation: The twenty-five luminous and intensely personal essays in this collection are, like Andre Dubus's celebrated short stories, a testament to the author's vulnerability, vision, and indestructible faith. Since losing one leg and the use of the other in a 1986 accident, Dubus has experienced despair, learned acceptance, and, finally, found joy in the sacramental magic of even the most quotidian tasks.
Whether he is writing of the relationship with his father, the rape of his beloved sister, his Catholic faith, the suicide of a gay naval officer, his admiration for fellow writers like Hemingway and Mailer, or the simple act of making sandwiches for his daughters' lunchboxes, Dubus cuts straight to the heart of things. Here we have a master at the height of his powers, an artist whose work "is suffused with grace, bathed in a kind of spiritual glow" (The New York Times Book Review).
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Literary Collections | Essays
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
Dewey: B
LCCN: 97050551
Series: Vintage Contemporaries
Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.2" W x 8" (0.57 lbs) 226 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Physically Challenged
 
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The twenty-five luminous and intensely personal essays in this collection are, like Andre Dubus's celebrated short stories, a testament to the author's vulnerability, vision, and indestructible faith. Since losing one leg and the use of the other in a 1986 accident, Dubus has experienced despair, learned acceptance, and, finally, found joy in the sacramental magic of even the most quotidian tasks.
Whether he is writing of the relationship with his father, the rape of his beloved sister, his Catholic faith, the suicide of a gay naval officer, his admiration for fellow writers like Hemingway and Mailer, or the simple act of making sandwiches for his daughters' lunchboxes, Dubus cuts straight to the heart of things. Here we have a master at the height of his powers, an artist whose work "is suffused with grace, bathed in a kind of spiritual glow" (The New York Times Book Review).