Unframed Originals Recollections |
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Author:
| Merwin, W. S. |
ISBN: | 978-1-61902-775-6 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2016 |
Publisher: | Counterpoint Press
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Imprint: | Counterpoint |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $16.95 |
Book Description:
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In this haunting, elegantly written memoir, W. S. Merwin recalls in utterly unsentimental prose his youth, growing up in a repressed Presbyterian household in the small river towns of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The complex portrait that emerges of a family without language or history, transforms the story of their isolated lives into the development of a writer's conscience and a warning about the fate of a middle class eager to obliterate origins.
In this haunting, elegantly written memoir, W. S. Merwin recalls in utterly unsentimental prose his youth, growing up in a repressed Presbyterian household in the small river towns of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The complex portrait that emerges of a family without language or history, transforms the story of their isolated lives into the development of a writer's conscience and a warning about the fate of a middle class eager to obliterate origins.