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Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live

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Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live - Orner, Peter
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"Orner reads and writes everywhere he finds himself: a hospital cafeteria, a coffee shop in Albania, or a crowded bus in Haiti. The result is 'a book of unlearned meditations that stumbles into memoir.' Among the many writers Orner addresses are Isaac Babel and Zora Neale Hurston, both of whom told their truths and were silenced; Franz Kafka, who professed loneliness but craved connection; Robert Walser, who spent the last twenty-three years of his life in a Swiss insane asylum, 'working' at being crazy; and Juan Rulfo, who ...

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Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live 2016, Catapult

ISBN-13: 9781936787258

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