Disparates: Essays Contributor(s): Madden, Patrick (Author) |
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ISBN: 1496202449 ISBN-13: 9781496202444 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $20.66 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Humor | Form - Essays |
Dewey: 814.6 |
LCCN: 2019039055 |
Physical Information: 0.43" H x 6" W x 9" (0.62 lbs) 186 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In English disparate means "different" or "miscellaneous"--apt descriptors of these essays by Patrick Madden. In Spanish, however, disparate means "nonsense," "folly," or "absurdity,"--words appropriate to Madden's goal of undercutting any notion that essays must be serious business. Thus, in this collection, the essays are frivolous and lively, aiming to make readers laugh while they think about such abstract subjects as happiness and memory and unpredictability. Patrick Madden is a professor at Brigham Young University. He is the author of the award-winning Sublime Physick: Essays (Nebraska, 2016) and Quotidiana: Essays (Nebraska, 2010), and coeditor, with David Lazar, of After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays. His essays have appeared in a variety of periodicals as well as in The Best Creative Nonfiction and The Best American Spiritual Writing anthologies. Visit Madden's website at quotidiana.org. |