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In this deft collection of essays, Pulitzer Prize-winning author James McPherson offers poignant and lively interpretations of life that illuminate the ebb and flow of its sorrows and delights, and reveals his search for connections between everyday drudgery and a greater sense of purpose. He writes of the longing of the human soul by unifying thoughts of his deep affection for his daughter and the meaning of Disneyland; transcendental meanings in life and the tedium of long waits in airports, coming to self-knowledge and the cruel rituals of fraternity pledge week. A beautiful meditation on what it means to be human -- an enlightening and soulful work reaching to the core of suffering and joy.
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Kathleen Hirsch "Chicago Tribune"James Alan McPherson explores with eloquent urgency...a question that reaches to the soul of contemporary American experience not only for black Americans but for all who struggle to live from a moral center in the face of an increasingly fractionated social reality.
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James Alan McPherson is the author of Crabcakes, Hue and Cry, Railroad, and Elbow Room, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1978. His essays and short stories have appeared in numerous periodicals -- including The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, the Atlantic Monthly, Newsday, Ploughshares, the Iowa Review, and Double-Take -- and anthologies such as volumes of The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Essays, and O. Henry Prize Stories. McPherson has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Prize Fellows Award, and he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995. He is currently a professor of English at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
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- PublisherTouchstone
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0684870207
- ISBN 13 9780684870205
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