Cynthia Zarin

An Enlarged Heart

A Personal History

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This exquisite prose debut from prize-winning poet Cynthia Zarin is a poignant exploration of the author's experiences with love, work, and the surprise of time's passage.Zarin charts the shifting and complicated parameters of contemporary life and family in writing that feels nearly fictional in its richness of scene, dialogue, and mood. The writer herself is the marvelously rueful character at the center of these tales, at first a bewildered young woman navigating the terrain of new jobs and borrowed apartments in a long-vanished New York City. By the end, whether describing a newlywed journey to Italy, a child's life-threatening illness, M… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4000-7764-9
EAN: 9781400077649
Produktnummer: 14907280
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 240 S.

Über den Autor

Cynthia Zarin was born in New York City and educated at Harvard and Columbia. The author of four books of poetry and five books for children, she is a longtime contributor to The New Yorker, as well as other publications, and a former contributing editor at Gourmet. Her awards and honors include a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, the Ingram Merrill Award for Poetry, the Peter I. B. Lavan Prize, a National Endowment of the Arts Award for Literature, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She lives in New York City.