My Sky Blue Trades: Growing Up Counter in a Contrary Time - Softcover

Birkerts, Sven

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0142003093 ISBN 13: 9780142003091

Publisher: Penguin Group USA, 2003

Synopsis

Author of the widely acclaimed New York Times Notable Book The Gutenberg Elegies, distinguished critic and essayist Sven Birkerts explores in this brilliantly written memoir what it means to be an American with roots in a distant culture. The son of Latvian immigrants, Birkerts describes how 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 the excesses of the 1960s counterculture. A moving saga of a writer's painful-and comic-coming-of-age, My Sky Blue Trades is an absorbing chronicle of the circuitous path Birkerts took to becoming one of America's foremost literary figures.

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About the Author:

Sven Birkerts is the author of The Gutenberg Elegies, Readings, American Energies, and other books. He teaches at the Bennington Writing Seminars and is the editor of the journal Agni.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Group USA
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0142003093
• ISBN 13: 9780142003091
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288