Enough About You: Adventures in Autobiography - Couverture rigide

Shields, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0743225783 ISBN 13 : 9780743225786

Editeur : Simon & Schuster International, 1939

Synopsis

A self-reflective and highly inventive book that is both memoir and meditation on memoir. ENOUGH ABOUT YOU is a book about David Shields. But it is also a terrifically engrossing exploration and exploitation of self-reflection, self-absorption, full blown narcissism, and the impulse to write about oneself. In a world awash with memoirs and tell-alls, Shields has created something unique: he invites the reader into his mind as he turns his life into a narrative. With moving and often hilarious candur, Shields covers a variety of subjects, language, sex, literary criticism, basketball, family, Bill Murray - all while exploring the impulse to confess, to use oneself as an autobiographical subject, to make one's life into a work of art. The result is a collection of poetically charged self-reflections which reveal deep truths about ourselves as well.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David Shields is the author of two novels, Dead Languages and Heroes; a collection of linked stories, A Handbook for Drowning; and three previous works of non-fiction. He is a professor in the English department at the University of Washington.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster International
• Date d'édition: 1939
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0743225783
• ISBN 13: 9780743225786
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible