Dead Languages: A Novel
Language: English
Published by Alfred a Knopf Inc, NY, 1989
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- Hardcover
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First Edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Knopf, 1989. Author's second novel. Fine in fine dj.
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- Title
- Dead Languages: A Novel
- Author
- Shields, David
- Publisher
- Alfred a Knopf Inc, NY
- Publication year
- 1989
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hard
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0394573889
- ISBN 13
- 9780394573885
- Edition
- 1st
- Dimensions
- 8vo.
- Seller catalogs
- Literary & Modern First Editions
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From the moment his mother tries unsuccessfully to coax him into saying "Philadelphia," Jeremy Zorn's life is framed by his unwieldy attempts at articulation. Through family rituals with his word-obsessed parents and sister, failed first love, an ill-fated run for class president, as the only Jewish boy on an otherwise all-black basketball team, all of the passages of Jeremy's life are marked in some way by his stutter and his wildly off-the-mark attempts at a cure. It is only when he enters college and learns his strong-willed mother is dying that he realizes all languages, when used as hiding places for the heart, are dead ones.
"As touching and funny a rendering of adolescence as The Catcher in the Rye. . . .Dead Languages speaks to everyone who has ever struggled to articulate an emotion and failed to find the words."--Library Journal
"An astonishing and mordantly witty tour de force. David Shields, a virtuoso of the written word, manages to make the halting, self-conscious agonies of his stuttering hero into a metaphor for all our disjointed, doomed attempts at self-definition through connection. He has transcended his subject and written a book that will touch everyone who has suffered over the inadequacies of speech to sustain life and love."--Lynne Sharon Schwartz
David Shield's other books are Remote, A Handbook for Drowning, andHeroes. His stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine,Harper's, Vogue, Details, the Village Voice, and Utne Reader. He lives in Seattle, where is a professor of English at the University of Washington.
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