My Sky Blue Trades Growing up Counter in a Contrary Time

Name: My Sky Blue Trades Growing up Counter in a Contrary Time
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ISBN: 9780142003091

ISBN-10: 0142003093

ISBN-13: 9780142003091

Edition: N/A

Authors: Sven Birkerts

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Author of the widely acclaimed New York TimesNotable Book The Gutenberg Elegies, distinguished critic and essayist Sven Birkerts explores in this brilliantly written memoir what it means to be an American with roots in a distant culture. The son of Latvian immigrants, Birkerts describes how his struggle to find his own path thrust him up against the myths of his origins-the turbulent lives of his grandparents, whose artistic ambitions played out against a backdrop of revolution and war-as well as the excesses of the 1960s counterculture. A moving saga of a writer's painful-and comic-coming-of-age, My Sky Blue Tradesis an absorbing chronicle of the circuitous path Birkerts took to becoming…

Book details

List price: $14.00
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 7/29/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.75" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Sven Birkerts teaches at Mount Holyoke College and the Bennington Writing Seminary. He lives in Arlington, Massachusetts.