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Harry Mark Petrakis

Song of My Life

A Memoir

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With the discipline of a surgeon performing a critical operation, acclaimed storyteller Harry Mark Petrakis strips away layers of his nine decades of life to expose the blood and bone of a human being in his third memoir and twenty-fifth book, Song of My Life. Petrakis is unsparing in exposing his own flaws, from a youthful gambling addiction, to the enormous lie of his military draft, to a midlife suicidal depression. Yet he is compassionate in depicting the foibles of others around him. Petrakis writes with love about his parents and five siblings, with nostalgia as he describes the Greek neighborhoods and cramped Chicago apartments of his… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-61117-503-5
  • EAN: 9781611175035
  • Produktnummer: 22119499
  • Verlag: University of South Carolina Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Seitenangabe: 216 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 1'809 KB

Über den Autor


Harry Mark Petrakis published his first story, Pericles on 31st Street in the Atlantic Monthly in 1957. Since then he has written twenty-five books of fiction, essays, and memoirs, and he has twice been nominated for the National Book Award in fiction. Petrakis has been honored with the O. Henry Award, the Chicago Public Library's Carl Sandburg Award, and awards from the Friends of American Writers, Friends of Literature, and the Society of Midland Authors. Petrakis has adapted his stories and novels for film and television and has lectured on storytelling before colleges and clubs across the United States. He and his wife, Diana, have three sons and four grandchildren.

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