The Effects of Knut Hamsun on a Fresno Boy: Recollections and Short Essays
These small essays are not unlike Dutch paintings of the sixteenth century. They are clear and precisely rendered, and are either thematically domestic scenes or pedestrian in their observations of the ordinary. There is a delirious joy in Soto's writings, and heartbreak. This collection features his much-lauded essays The Jacket and Like Mexicans, along with new essays such as Childhood Worries, or Why I Became a Writer, Getting It Done, and the title essay in which Soto fashions himself to be Fresno's own Knut Hamsun, the Norwegian writer of the 1920s who lived on nothing more than his five senses.Poet and critic Christopher Buckley said of…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-89255-254-2
- EAN: 9780892552542
- Produktnummer: 9153037
- Verlag: Persea Books Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 205 S.
- Masse: H20.9 cm x B13.7 cm x D1.3 cm 254 g
- Gewicht: 254
Über den Autor
Gary Soto, author of books for children, young adults, and adults, lives in Berkeley, California. His best-selling fiction includes Baseball in April and Buried Onions.
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