Things That Are Essays

Name: Things That Are Essays
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ISBN: 9781571313515

ISBN-10: 1571313516

ISBN-13: 9781571313515

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Authors: Amy Leach

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The debut collection of a writer whose accolades precede her: a Whiting Award, a Rona Jaffe Award, a Best American Essays selection, and a Pushcart Prize, all received before her first book-length publication. This book represents a major break-out of an entirely new brand of nonfiction writer, in a mode like that of Ander Monson, John D’Agata, and Eula Biss, but a new sort of beast entirely its own.Things That Are takes jellyfish, fainting goats, and imperturbable caterpillars as just a few of its many inspirations. In a series of essays that progress from the tiniest earth dwellers to the most far flung celestial bodiesconsidering the similarity of gods to donkeys, the inexorability of…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Publication date: 6/17/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English