Joseph Skibell

My Father's Guitar and Other Imaginary Things (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In this book of autobiographical essays, an award-winning novelist reflects on childhood, love, his close-knit Jewish family, his father, and more. InMy Father's Guitar and Other Imaginary Things,Joseph Skibell's first nonfiction work, he mines the events of his own life to create a captivating collection of personal essays. Often comic, sometimes tender, these stories are 100 percent profoundly true. Skibell misremembers the guitar his father promised him; together, he and a telemarketer dream of a better world; a major work of Holocaust art turns out to have been painted by his cousin. Woven together, the stories paint a complex portrait of a man and his family: a businessman father and an artistic son and the difficult love between them; complicated uncles, cousins, and sisters; a haunted house; and-of course-an imaginary guitar. The pleasure in these pieces is discovering along with the author that catastrophes, fantasies, and delusions are what give sweetness and shape to our lives... "The voice is so beguiling, the tone so sweet and hilarious, you quickly realize that you are in the hands of a master.... This is a book to be prized in the way readers prize the work of Charles Portis." -James Magnuson, author ofFamous Writers I Have Known "Colorful and endearing, the book will appeal to readers who appreciate Augusten Burroughs-style, real-life anecdotal ponderings focused on familial ties and how life's eternal cycle of enchantment and disillusionment somehow sustains us." -Kirkus Reviews

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Algonquin Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781616205454
• Artikelnr.: 42720211

Autorenporträt

Possessing "a gifted, committed imagination" (New York Times), Joseph Skibell is the author of three novels, A Blessing on the Moon, The English Disease, and A Curable Romantic; the forthcoming collection of nonfiction stories My Father's Guitar and Other Imaginary Things; and another forthcoming nonfiction work, Six Memos from the Last Millennium: A Novelist Reads the Talmud. He has received numerous awards, including the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Sami Rohr Award in Jewish Literature, Story magazine's Short Short-Story Prize, and the Turner Prize for First Fiction. As director of the Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature from 2008 to 2015, he sang and played guitar onstage with both Margaret Atwood and Paul Simon. A professor at Emory University, Skibell has also taught at the University of Wisconsin and the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. Recently a Senior Fellow at the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, he is the Winship Distinguished Research Professor in the Humanities at Emory University. A native Texan, he lives mostly in his head.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
My Father’s Guitar & Other Imaginary Things 1
International Type of Guy 11
If You Were Smiths 21
Call Morris 29
The Hank Williams Songbook 51
Sex Lives of Our Children 55
Snip Snip Snip 69
Paul McCartney’s Phone Number 87
Irvin in Wonderland 89
Get Your Feet Back on the Ground 105
Absolute Elsewhere 109
Don’t Mess with Mister In Between 117
Pre-Sweetened without Sugar 129
Wooden Nickels 133
Everybody’s Lot 159
Ten Faces 175