Unpleasantries e-bog
348,37 DKK
(inkl. moms 435,46 DKK)
Even from upside-down in his recently flipped truck, Frank Soos reveals himself to be ruminative, grappling with the limitations of language to express the human condition. Moving quicklyskiing in the dark or taking long summer bike rides on Alaska highwaysSoos combines an active physical life with a dark and difficult interior existence, wrestling the full span of thinking and doing onto the p...
E-bog
348,37 DKK
Udgivet
1 juni 2016
Længde
208 sider
Genrer
Memoirs
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780295806709
Even from upside-down in his recently flipped truck, Frank Soos reveals himself to be ruminative, grappling with the limitations of language to express the human condition. Moving quicklyskiing in the dark or taking long summer bike rides on Alaska highwaysSoos combines an active physical life with a dark and difficult interior existence, wrestling the full span of thinking and doing onto the page with surprising lightness. His meditations move from fly-fishing in dangerously swift Alaska rivers to memories of the liars and dirty-joke tellers of his small-town Virginia childhood, revealing insights in new encounters and old preoccupations. Soos writes about pain and despair, aging, his divorce, his fathers passing, regret, the loss of home, and the fear of death. But in the process of confronting these dark topics, he is full of wonder. As he writes at the end of an account of almost drowning, Bruised but whole, I was alive, alive, alive.