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Bezig met laden... Meditations from a Movable Chair (1998)door Andre Dubus
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I can't remember how I found this book, but I'm glad I did. Through these writings about his life, Dubus gets us to look at our own. For me, the essay "Brothers" was worth much more than the price of the book. ( ) This is perhaps the quickest and most natural read of my entire career. I cannot imagine reading anything as swiftly and easily as this reading came to me. The book was smoldering in my hands and I had to put it down from time to time because of it. The heat had everything to do with its subjects whether they were anecdotes about Hemingway, Yates, Mailer, divorce, faith, writing, depression, the accident, or his being a cripple and living with it. I write more extensively and more personally about my reading of this book here: http://hub.me/aeCFM In 1986, when he was 49, Andre Dubus stopped his car to help people who had been in an accident. He was hit by a car and lost one leg as well as the use of the other. He is confined to a wheelchair, and, while that is not a defining condition of his life, it is of many of these essays. His Catholicism is also defining for some of them. He writes a letter to politicians about the difficulty of traveling on Amtrak or on airlines with his leg, which won’t bend at the knee. He writes about grace and the sacramental in the ordinary and the physical. His father made him take a construction job, which turned out to be digging ditches with a pick and shovel, when he was seventeen; he writes about that and about his experience on a carrier for a year, during which a friend, an airman and Air Guard Commander, killed himself when the Navy’s investigators discovered he was homosexual. He describes giving up his guns when he realizes carrying one means that sooner or later he will kill someone. Dubus (Duh-byooze) was born in 1936 and died in 1999 of a heart attack. actually only read this one essay, 2 feb 21 https://www.scribd.com/document/377596455/09-Dubus-Sacraments geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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For Andre Dubus, "the quotidian and the spiritual don't exist on different planes, but infuse each other. His is an unapologetically sacramental vision of life in which ordinary things participate in the miraculous, the miraculous in ordinary things. He believes in God, and talks to Him, and doesn't mince words. He believes in ghosts . . . He is open to mystery, and of all mysteries the one that interests him most is the human potential for transcendence." So wrote Tobias Wolff seven years ago, about Andre Dubus's Broken Vessels, and that insight describes perfectly the twenty-five pieces in this powerfully moving new collection, a continuation of Dubus's candid, intensely personal exploration into matters of morality, religion, and creativity. Since that first book of essays, written after the 1986 accident that cost him his leg and, for a time, the ability to write, Mr. Dubus has published Dancing After Hours, a unanimously heralded book of stories "at once harrowing and exhilarating" (Time). Here is Dubus on the rape of his beloved sister, his first real job, a gay naval officer, Hemingway, the blessing of his first marriage, his dear friend Richard Yates, his own crippling, lost autumnal pleasures, having sons and grandsons, his first books, meeting a woman who witnessed his accident, the Catholic church, and, of course, his faith. A writer of immense sensitivity, vulnerability, and thoughtfulness--a master at the height of his talent--whose work "is suffused with grace, bathed in a kind of spiritual glow" (New York Times Book Review). Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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