Farber examines his own experiences and relationships as a writer, compares them to the lives of others, and finds that writers are different from other people in ways that are surprising and perhaps disturbing.
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Stories describe the author's life as a writer, personal relationships, and understanding of the nature of fiction.
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hardcover. first edition. 8vo 176pp. from front flap: "Thomas Farber's special gift as a writer is his ability to convey with deceptive simplicity and economy whole ranges of emotional experience. Here, in this luminous mosaic of linked nonfiction stories and meditations, he presents us with a startlingly original, interior view of the writer's life: the intricacies of its methods, of the impulse to story, of the writer's place in society--all that informs and haunts this odd vocation." #00964. near fine: clean, tight, square. very good+ : touch of shelf wear, NOT clipped ($14.95). Seller Inventory # 883
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Hardcover. Condition: NEW - COLLECTIBLE. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition, First Printing. BRAND NEW & COLLECTIBLE. First Edition, First Printing. (1944 -). Lyrical, and ironic, reflections of a successful author in mid-life. With himself as the protagonist, award winning authorThomas Farber (1944-), whose collections of short stories include Who Wrote the Book of Love? (1977) and Hazards to the Human Heart (1980), and the novel Curves of Pursuit. That books have their own fate, at the age of 41, Farber finds he had been living "as though he had all the time in the world". Perhaps none of us are rich in time?. Seller Inventory # 016977
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