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In the Suicide's Library: A Book Lover's Journey

Tim Bowling

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Description:When the hustle and bustle of modern life, the responsibilities of marriage and parenting, and the weight of middle-age get Tim Bowling down, he heads for a bookshelf in search of the solace books and reading can provide. But can the cure become the poison? One day, alone in the Modern Literature stacks of a university library, Bowling opens a tattered copy of Wallace Stevens's poetry collection Ideas of Order and, on the front flyleaf, finds the elegant ownership signature of Weldon Kees - an obscure American poet, painter, photographer, filmmaker and musician who vanished mysteriously in 1955, an apparent suicide off the Golden Gate Bridge. So beings Bowling's strange eight-month quest into American literature of the 1940 and '50s and the world of book collecting, a journey branching into a wealth of subjects ranging between fathers and daughters, suicide, masculinity, the Internet, bibliomania and the strange effects of midlife and obsession in an otherwise rational mind. Through it all, Bowling faces two central questions: the one that Weldon Kees put to his friend, Pauline Kael, on the day before he vanished – "What keeps you going?" – and, perhaps even more important, is it ever acceptable to steal a book for your own collection?We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with In the Suicide's Library: A Book Lover's Journey. To get started finding In the Suicide's Library: A Book Lover's Journey, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 315

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Gaspereau Press

Release: 2010

ISBN: 1554470897

Description: When the hustle and bustle of modern life, the responsibilities of marriage and parenting, and the weight of middle-age get Tim Bowling down, he heads for a bookshelf in search of the solace books and reading can provide. But can the cure become the poison? One day, alone in the Modern Literature stacks of a university library, Bowling opens a tattered copy of Wallace Stevens's poetry collection Ideas of Order and, on the front flyleaf, finds the elegant ownership signature of Weldon Kees - an obscure American poet, painter, photographer, filmmaker and musician who vanished mysteriously in 1955, an apparent suicide off the Golden Gate Bridge. So beings Bowling's strange eight-month quest into American literature of the 1940 and '50s and the world of book collecting, a journey branching into a wealth of subjects ranging between fathers and daughters, suicide, masculinity, the Internet, bibliomania and the strange effects of midlife and obsession in an otherwise rational mind. Through it all, Bowling faces two central questions: the one that Weldon Kees put to his friend, Pauline Kael, on the day before he vanished – "What keeps you going?" – and, perhaps even more important, is it ever acceptable to steal a book for your own collection?We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with In the Suicide's Library: A Book Lover's Journey. To get started finding In the Suicide's Library: A Book Lover's Journey, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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