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Mary Cappello

Awkward

A Detour

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Los Angeles Times BestsellerMary Cappello['s] inventive, associative taxonomy of discomfort . . . [is] revelatory indeed.” -MARK DOTY, author of Dog Years: A Memoir and Fire to Fire: New and Selected PoemsA wonderful, multi-layered piece of writing, with all the insight of great cultural criticism and all the emotional pull of memoir. A fascinating book.” -SARAH WATERS, author of The Night Watch and The Little StrangerWithout awkwardness we would not know grace, stability, or balance. Yet no one before Mary Cappello has turned such a penetrating gaze on this misunderstood condition. Fearlessly exploring the ambiguous borders of identity, she… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-934137-90-1
  • EAN: 9781934137901
  • Produktnummer: 22540706
  • Verlag: Bellevue Literary Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Seitenangabe: 240 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 400 KB

Über den Autor


Mary Cappello is the author of four books of literary nonfiction, including Awkward: A Detour, which was a Los Angeles Times bestseller, Called Back: My Reply to Cancer, My Return to Life, which won a ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award and an Independent Publishers Prize, and Swallow: Foreign Bodies, Their Ingestion, Inspiration, and the Curious Doctor Who Extracted Them. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Salon, Huffington Post, NPR, in guest author blogs for Powell's Books, and on five separate occasions as Notable Essay of the Year in Best American Essays. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction, The Bechtel Prize for Educating the Imagination from Teachers and Writers Collaborative, and the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize from Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies. Professor of English at the University of Rhode Island, she lives in Providence, Rhode Island and Lucerne-in-Maine, Maine.

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