How Literature Saved My Life

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ISBN-10:

0345802721

ISBN-13:

9780345802729

Author(s): Shields, David
Edition: Illustrated
Released: Nov 05, 2013
Format: Paperback, 222 pages
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Description:

Blending confessional criticism and cultural autobiography, David Shields explores the power of literature to make life survivable, maybe even endurable. Evoking his deeply divided personality, his character flaws, his woes, his serious despair, he wants "literature to assuage human loneliness, but nothing can assuage human loneliness. Literature doesn't lie about this—which is what makes it essential." This is a captivating, thought-provoking, utterly original book about the essential acts of reading and writing.












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