My Mother's House e-bog
151,31 DKK
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Set in the bucolic, yet brutal South of his youth, My Mother's House is a memoir by novelist David Armand. It recounts the young author's early memories of being born to a schizophrenic mother, then given up for adoption, only to be raised in a home with an alcoholic and abusive step-father. In this sharply-remembered portrait of the people and places that shaped him, Armand paints his seemingl...
E-bog
151,31 DKK
Forlag
Texas Review Press
Udgivet
30 marts 2016
Længde
192 sider
Genrer
1KBBSL
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781680030747
Set in the bucolic, yet brutal South of his youth, My Mother's House is a memoir by novelist David Armand. It recounts the young author's early memories of being born to a schizophrenic mother, then given up for adoption, only to be raised in a home with an alcoholic and abusive step-father. In this sharply-remembered portrait of the people and places that shaped him, Armand paints his seemingly negative experiences with a sympathetic and understanding brush. As the reader follows Armand through his childhood and later into adult lifewhen he is reunited with his mother after she makes a failed suicide attempta surprisingly new world of hope and possibility is rendered, despite the overwhelming challenges of this reunion. [Armands] writing is reminiscent of Hemingway: straightforward descriptions of manly action punctuated by laconic dialogue.--New York Journal of Books Armand writes in a comfortingly familiar literary voice that blends Ernest Hemingway's laconic but rhythmically complicated explorations of the mysteries of masculinity with William Faulkner's more fabulist, Southern Gothic twang. It's a heady, seductively intoxicating combination.--Richmond Times-Dispatch