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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Michael Cohen is a master of the great American essay. 'A Place to Read' is a silky flight into the wisdom of personal, as well as universally human, experience. From Odysseus to Milton, Bradbury to de Botton—Cohen’s sweeping and spacious reflections drew me into questions of being, mortality, and even the thrill of flight: “I wasn’t sad; I was exhilarated. I was going to learn to fly. I was sixty years old. What had taken me so long?” The pages cross the years and state lines, and for someone who knows something of his references to Odysseus yearning for Ithaca, the American settings held me—California, New Orleans, Kentucky, Arizona, Seattle, Missouri. Cohen writes, “The heart beats, as it should, in secret.” He does not walk with readers. He flies with them. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
In this essay collection, Michael Cohen tells us about his surprise encounter with the remains of Frida Kahlo, about his father's murder, and about his son's close shave with death on the highway. His subjects can be as commonplace as golfing with close friends, amateur astronomy, birding, or learning to fly at the age of sixty. But he asks difficult questions about how we are grounded in space and time, how we are affected by our names, how a healthy person can turn into a hypochondriac, and how we might commune with the dead. And throughout he measures, compares and interprets his experiences through the lens of six decades of reading.The tools of the writer's trade fascinate him as do eateries in his small college town, male dress habits, American roads, and roadside shrines. He lives on the Blood River in Kentucky when he is not in the Tucson Mountains. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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