| Unframed Originals: Recollections Contributor(s): Merwin, W. S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1593760345 ISBN-13: 9781593760342 Publisher: Counterpoint LLC OUR PRICE: $16.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2004 Annotation: In this haunting, elegantly written memoir, W. S. Merwin recalls his youth, growing up in a repressed Presbyterian household in the small river towns of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The complex portrait of a family without language or history transforms the story of their isolated lives into the development of a writer's conscience and a warning about the fate of a middle class eager to obliterate origins. Unframed Originals brings the reader complex and intimate family portraits from an award-winning poet. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Historical |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2004065331 |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 5.58" W x 9.02" (0.77 lbs) 252 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Masculine - Topical - Family - Geographic Orientation - Pennsylvania - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Geographic Orientation - New Jersey - Demographic Orientation - Small Town |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this haunting, elegantly written memoir, W. S. Merwin recalls in utterly unsentimental prose his youth, growing up in a repressed Presbyterian household in the small river towns of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The complex portrait that emerges of a family without language or history, transforms the story of their isolated lives into the development of a writer's conscience and a warning about the fate of a middle class eager to obliterate origins. This book is superbly written, offering deep glimpses into the complexities and mysteries of family bonds, with just that distancing from people and events necessary for artistic control.--Edmund Fuller, Wall Street Journal |