Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First Photographer - Couverture souple

Frank, Matthew Gavin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1631490567 ISBN 13 : 9781631490569

Editeur : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2015

Synopsis

In 1874, Moses Harvey--eccentric Newfoundland reverend and amateur naturalist--was the first person to photograph the near-mythic giant squid, draping it over his shower curtain rod to display its magnitude. In Preparing the Ghost, what begins as Harvey's story becomes spectacularly "slippery and many-armed" (NewYorker.com) as Matthew Gavin Frank winds his narrative tentacles around history, creative nonfiction, science, memoir, and meditations about the interrelated nature of them all. In his full-hearted, lyrical style, Frank weaves in playful forays about his trip to Harvey's Newfoundland home, his own childhood and family history, and a catalog of peculiar facts that recall Melville 's story of obsession with another deep-sea dwelling leviathan. "Totally original and haunting" (Flavorwire), Preparing the Ghost is a delightfully unpredictable inquiry into the big, beautiful human impulse to obsess.

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À propos de l'auteur

Matthew Gavin Frank is the author of Preparing the Ghost and The Mad Feast. He teaches creative writing and lives in Marquette, Michigan.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1631490567
• ISBN 13: 9781631490569
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible