How Literature Saved My Life
David Shields$17.00
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Blending confessional criticism and cultural autobiography, David Shields explores the power of literature to make life survivable, maybe even endurable. Evoking his deeply divided personality, his character flaws, his woes, his serious despair, he wants "literature to assuage human loneliness, but nothing can assuage human loneliness. Literature doesn't lie about this--which is what makes it essential." This is a captivating, thought-provoking, utterly original book about the essential acts of reading and writing.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 11/05/2013
ISBN: 9780345802729
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.70d