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The Presence of Absence - Van Booy, Simon
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"'Language is a map leading to a place not on the map, ' announces a young writer lying in a hospital bed at the beginning of The Presence of Absence. As he contemplates his impending physical disappearance and the impact on his beloved wife, he realizes, 'Life doesn't start when you're born . . . it begins when you commit yourself to the eventual devastating loss that results from connecting to another person.' Stripped of artifice, The Presence of Absence is a meditation between the writer and the reader, an imaginative ...

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The Presence of Absence 2022, David R. Godine Publisher

ISBN-13: 9781567927443

Hardcover