A Postcard Memoir
Sutin, Lawrence
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
Drawing upon his collection of quirky antique postcards, Lawrence Sutin has penned a series of brief but intense reminiscences of his "ordinary" life. In the process, he creates an unrepentant, wholly unique account about learning to live with a consciousness all his own. Ranging from remembered events to inner states to full-blown fantasies, Sutin is at turns playful and somber, rhapsodic and mundane, funny and full of pathos. Here you'll find tales about science teachers and other horrors of adolescence, life in a comedy troupe, stepfathering--each illustrated with the postcard that triggered Sutin's muse--and presented in a mix so enticingly wayward as to prove that at least some of it really happened.
BOOK REVIEWS
"This is a delightful little book, as full of shifts and surprises as the kind of transparent kaleidoscope that reorders what it looks at. I sincerely like the man who's constructed himself out of these vignettes, his candor and vulnerability balanced by a critical intelligence and wit. Best of all, he seems wise to himself without cynicism, to the curiosity and moodiness of his younger self and the more secure commitments of his maturity. A Postcard Memoir is the kind of book I'd secretly like to slip into my friends' back pockets, marked READ ME."--Rosellen Brown
"Like Kafka in a good mood."--Judith Katz
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1555973043
ISBN(13-digit): 9781555973049
Copyright: 2000
Dewey Decimal: 808
Library of Congress: 99067243
Book Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 222
Paper Weight (lb): 1.2
