s Randal O'Wain

Meander Belt

Family, Loss, and Coming of Age in the Working-Class South

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Produktbeschreibung

Meander Belt is a reflection on how a working-class boy from the American South came to fall in love with language and writing despite his relationship with a father who valued physical rather than mental labor.  

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 277g
• ISBN-13: 9781496213310
• ISBN-10: 1496213319
• Artikelnr.: 55484023

Autorenporträt

M. Randal O’Wain earned his MFA from the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program. He is a teaching assistant professor of creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and serves as a National Endowment of the Arts Writing Fellow at the Beckley Federal Correctional Institution. O’Wain is the author of the short story collection Hallelujah Station and his work has been published in Oxford American, Hotel Amerika, Crazyhorse, and Guernica Magazine. For more information about the author visit randalowain.com.  

Inhaltsangabe

Preface    
I. Mirrored Mezzanine    
II. Arrow of Light    
III. Here    
IV. The Junk Trade    
V. Superman Dam Fool    
VI. My Mother Taught Me How to Be    
VII. Rock and Roll High School    
VIII. Halfway Between    
IX. Thirteenth Street and Failing    
X. Memento Mori Part One: Calls in the Night    
XI. Memento Mori Part Two: Jackson General    
XII. Memento Mori Part Three: The Howlers    
XIII. Rain over Memphis    
XIV. Ornamental Stairs    
XV. On Love    
XVI. Dear Brother    
XVII. How to Walk as a Nontraditional Graduate    
XVIII. Barking Hours    
XIX. Into This Place    
Acknowledgments