Dead Languages: A Novel - Couverture souple

Shields, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1555972748 ISBN 13 : 9781555972745

Editeur : Graywolf Press,U.S., 1998

Synopsis

In Dead Languages by David Shields, Jeremy Zorn's mother tries unsuccessfully to coax him into saying "Philadelphia," and his life becomes framed by his unwieldy attempts at articulation. Through family rituals with his word-obsessed parents and sister, failed first love, an ill-fated run for class president, as the only Jewish boy on an otherwise all-black basketball team, all of the passages of Jeremy's life are marked in some way by his stutter and his wildly off-the-mark attempts at a cure. It is only when he enters college and learns his strong-willed mother is dying that he realizes all languages, when used as hiding places for the heart, are dead ones.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

David Shield's other books are Remote, A Handbook for Drowning, and Heroes. His stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Vogue, Details, the Village Voice, and Utne Reader. He lives in Seattle, where is a professor of English at the University of Washington.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Graywolf Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1555972748
• ISBN 13: 9781555972745
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible