My Sky Blue Trades: Growing Up Counter in a Contrary Time
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- Synopsis
- "With The Gutenberg Elegies, a widely acclaimed New York Times Notable Book, Sven Birkerts won attention as a graceful and thoughtful essayist, an eloquent advocate of literature in an age of electronic media. Now he shows what only literature can do, in a memoir that probes what it means to be an American with roots in a distant culture." "As a boy growing up in Detroit, Birkerts always felt deeply divided between the claims of his family's Latvian heritage and the seductions of his adopted culture. His struggle to find his own path thrust him up against the myths of his origins - the turbulent lives of his grandparents, whose artistic ambitions played out against a backdrop of revolution and war - as well as into the excesses of the 1960s counterculture. He provides a moving saga of love and loss on the way to finding his own artistic vocation. The chronicle of a writer's painful - and comic - coming-of-age, My Sky Blue Trades is also a vivid portrait of our postwar era, from the tranquilized '50s to the present." --BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
- Copyright:
- 2002
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 280 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780670031092
- Publisher:
- Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
- Date of Addition:
- 05/25/09
- Copyrighted By:
- Sven Birkerts
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs
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- Digital Divide Data
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.