I Just Lately Started Buying Wings: Missives from the Other Side of Silence
A finely crafted debut, winner of the 2009 Bakeless Nonfiction PrizeKim Dana Kupperman’s essays plumb the emotional and spiritual depths of a transitory life. Her episodic “missives” cover territory from the chaos of a frenetic childhood to love affairs, failed and otherwise, to the Chernobyl...
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A finely crafted debut, winner of the 2009 Bakeless Nonfiction PrizeKim Dana Kupperman’s essays plumb the emotional and spiritual depths of a transitory life. Her episodic “missives” cover territory from the chaos of a frenetic childhood to love affairs, failed and otherwise, to the Chernobyl nuclear accident, to an ocean-crossing search for her Eastern European roots. In confident, lyrical prose, Kupperman leads the reader through a winding gallery—a collection of still lifes and portraits, landscapes of loneliness and love.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781555970086 (1555970087)
Publish date: August 3rd 2010
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English