Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin
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- Synopsis
- Finalist for the Vermont Book AwardFinalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayA new collection of pieces on literature and life by the author of Am I Alone Here?, a finalist for the NBCC Award for CriticismStationed in the South Pacific during World War II, Seymour Orner wrote a letter every day to his wife, Lorraine. She seldom responded, leading him to plead in 1945, &“Another day and still no word from you.&” Seventy years later, Peter Orner writes in response to his grandfather&’s plea: &“Maybe we read because we seek that word from someone, from anyone.&”From the acclaimed fiction writer about whom Dwight Garner of The New York Times wrote, &“You know from the second you pick him up that he&’s the real deal,&” comes Still No Word from You, a unique chain of essays and intimate stories that meld the lived life and the reading life. For Orner, there is no separation. Covering such well-known writers as Lorraine Hansberry, Primo Levi, and Marilynne Robinson, as well as other greats like Maeve Brennan and James Alan McPherson, Orner&’s highly personal take on literature alternates with his own true stories of loss and love, hope and despair. In his mother&’s copy of A Coney Island of the Mind, he&’s stopped short by a single word in the margin, &“YES!&”—which leads him to conjure his mother at twenty-three. He stops reading Penelope Fitzgerald&’s The Beginning of Spring three quarters of the way through because he knows that finishing the novel will leave him bereft. Orner&’s solution is to start again from the beginning to slow the inevitable heartache.Still No Word from You is a book for anyone for whom reading is as essential as breathing.
- Copyright:
- 2022
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 320 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781646221370
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781646221363
- Publisher:
- Catapult
- Date of Addition:
- 09/25/23
- Copyrighted By:
- Peter Orner
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.