A Preparation for Death - Couverture souple

Baxter, Greg

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0141048441 ISBN 13 : 9780141048444

Editeur : Penguin, 2011

Synopsis

'Traditional autobiography is composed after the experience has passed. I wrote this book in the very panic of the experiences that inspired it ... '

In his early thirties, Greg Baxter found himself in a strange place. He hated his job, he was drinking excessively, he was sabotaging his most important relationships, and he was no longer doing the thing he cared about most: writing. Strangest of all, at this time he started teaching evening classes in creative writing - and his life changed utterly.

A Preparation for Death is a document of the chaos and discovery of that time and of the experiences that led Greg Baxter to that strange place - an extraordinarily intimate account of literary failure (and its consequences), personal decay, and redemption through reading, writing, and truth-telling. Studded with vivid, loving portraits of the people closest to him - his Austrian grandmother, who narrowly survived the Second World War; his mother and father, both described with heartbreakingly close attention; and his cousin Walter, whose own demons provide a striking counterpoint to the author's - it is above all a stunningly vivid and searching self-portrait: possibly the most honest book you'll ever read.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Greg Baxter was born in Texas in 1974. For the past ten years he has lived in Dublin, where he works as a journalist.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0141048441
• ISBN 13: 9780141048444
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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