Feverland: A Memoir in Shards Contributor(s): Lemon, Alex (Author) |
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ISBN: 1571313362 ISBN-13: 9781571313362 Publisher: Milkweed Editions
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Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | People With Disabilities - Medical | Essays |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2017011038 |
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" L (0.90 lbs) 312 pages |
Features: Bibliography, Price on Product |
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2017 Publishers Weekly 09/18/2017 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Brain surgery. Assault weapons in the bed of a pickup truck. Rilke, Rodin, and the craters of the moon. Recovery and disintegration. Monkeys stealing an egg outside a temple in Kathmandu. Brushing teeth bloody on long car rides. Pain, ours and what we bring to others. Wildfires in southern California. Rats in Texas. Childhood abuse. Dreams of tigers and blackout nights. The sweetness of mangoes. A son born into a shadowy hospital room. Love. Joy. In Feverland, Alex Lemon has created a fragmented exploration of what it means to be a man in the tumult of twenty-first-century America--and a harrowing, associative memoir about how we live with the beauties and horrors of our pasts. How to be here, now? Lemon asks. How to be here, good? Immersed in darkness but shot through with light, this is a thrillingly experimental memoir from one of our most heartfelt and inventive writers. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lemon, Alex: - Alex Lemon is the author of Happy: A Memoir, and the poetry collections Mosquito, Hallelujah Blackout, Fancy Beasts, and The Wish Book. His writing has appeared in Esquire, Best American Poetry 2008, AGNI, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, and Tin House, among others. He was awarded a 2005 Literature Fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, and he contributes and reviews frequently for a wide range of media outlets. He lives with his wife and two children in Fort Worth, and teaches at Texas Christian University. |
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