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Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478029571ISBN-10:1478029579UPC:9781478029571Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Family & RelationshipsBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Parenting, JewishBook Topic:FatherhoodSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.75 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCCZ3H9HZ4
Degas at the Gas Station: Essays
In his latest collection, Thomas Beller trains his piercing literary eye on how a single, seismic event indelibly shapes the trajectory of the common and mundane experiences of one's life. Weaving together a charming set of autobiographical stories, Beller interrogates the randomness and contingencies that separate sadness from joy, death from life. His father escaped the Nazis, only to die in...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478029571ISBN-10:1478029579UPC:9781478029571Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Family & RelationshipsBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Parenting, JewishBook Topic:FatherhoodSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.75 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCCZ3H9HZ4
Thomas Beller is a long time contributor to the New Yorker and the author of several books including Lost in the Game: A Book about Basketball, also published by Duke University Press; J.D. Salinger: The Escape Artist; and The Sleep-Over Artist. A 2024-25 Guggenheim fellow, he is a founding editor of Open City Magazine and Books and Mrbellersneighborhood.com, and Professor and Director of...
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