The Wink of the Zenith : The Shaping of a Writer's Life

Skloot, Floyd

University of Nebraska Press（2008/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 277 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780803211193
• DDC分類 818.5409

Full Description

In his three previous memoirs, Floyd Skloot grappled with the brain-ravaging virus that struck him at forty-one. He was, as the San Francisco Chronicle noted, "shaping the experience of crippling illness into dazzling literature." Sifting through memories and observations to discover how circumstance and nature conspired to make him the writer he is, Skloot enacts in this book the very process he describes, the shaping of a writer's life. Among the influences of family and close friendship, experience and popular culture, he uncovers a unique and telling perspective on the forging of a writer's individual sensibility. At the same time, his book explores fundamental questions about how life shapes the creative spirit—and how, in turn, the writer makes sense of it all and gives life a new and meaningful shape in the form of literature.

Contents

Preface    

Acknowledgments  

Part One: Home Economics for Halfbacks

1. Going, Going, Gone  

2. The Wink of the Zenith    

3. The Summer of the Vampire 

4. Cover Stories 

5. Home Economics for Halfbacks    

Part Two: When the Clock Stops

6. When the Clock Stops

7. Into a Maelstrom of Fire: On Having a Feeling for Thomas Hardy

8. Echo Lark     

9. Numbers 

10. Running After My Father  

Part Three: Travels in Lavender and Light

11. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered   

12. The Voice of the Past    

13. Shine On     

14. Travels in Lavender and Light  

15. Jambon Dreams

16. Flesh and Fortune: Coming Back to Measure for Measure  

Epilogue: Silence the Pianos