Awkward: A Detour
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Sell my copyAuthor: Cappello, Mary
Title: Awkward: A Detour
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 240
Release Date: 2007-06-01
Details: Los Angeles Times Bestseller
?Mary Cappello['s] inventive, associative taxonomy of discomfort . . . [is] revelatory indeed." ?MARK DOTY, author of Dog Years: A Memoir and Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems
?A wonderful, multi-layered piece of writing, with all the insight of great cultural criticism and all the emotional pull of memoir. A fascinating book." ?SARAH WATERS, author of The Night Watch and The Little Stranger
Without awkwardness we would not know grace, stability, or balance. Yet no one before Mary Cappello has turned such a penetrating gaze on this misunderstood condition. Fearlessly exploring the ambiguous borders of identity, she mines her own life journeys?from Russia, to Italy, to the far corners of her heart and the depths of a literary or cinematic text?to decipher the powerful messages that awkwardness can transmit.
Mary Cappello is the author of four books of literary nonfiction, including Awkward: A Detour, which was a Los Angeles Times bestseller, Called Back: My Reply to Cancer, My Return to Life, which won a ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award and an Independent Publishers Prize, and Swallow: Foreign Bodies, Their Ingestion, Inspiration, and the Curious Doctor Who Extracted Them. Professor of English at the University of Rhode Island, she lives in Providence, Rhode Island and Lucerne-in-Maine, Maine.
EAN: 9781934137017
Package Dimensions: Height: 9 Inches, Length: 6 Inches, Weight: 0.7495716908 Pounds, Width: 0.6 Inches
Languages: en
