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Mystery and Mortality: Essays on the Sad, Short Gift of Life
Literary Nonfiction. O'Connor and Ferrante. Franzen, McCarthy, Brian Allen Carr. Kathy Acker and Wallace — MYSTERY AND MORTALITY is a collection of essays about literature. Paula Bomer focuses on the hardest things in life that inspire great writing, like the pain of loss in death, loss in love, loss in memory. Kierkegaard writes of the poet whose tortured screams from the dungeon sound like beautiful music to the king, so far removed. Here, Bomer's essays bring us back to what we're supposed to derive from literature: compassion.
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Mystery and Mortality: Essays on the Sad, Short Gift of Life
Literary Nonfiction. O'Connor and Ferrante. Franzen, McCarthy, Brian Allen Carr. Kathy Acker and Wallace — MYSTERY AND MORTALITY is a collection of essays about literature. Paula Bomer focuses on the hardest things in life that inspire great writing, like the pain of loss in death, loss in love, loss in memory. Kierkegaard writes of the poet whose tortured screams from the dungeon sound like beautiful music to the king, so far removed. Here, Bomer's essays bring us back to what we're supposed to derive from literature: compassion.
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Mystery and Mortality: Essays on the Sad, Short Gift of Life

Mystery and Mortality: Essays on the Sad, Short Gift of Life

by Paula Bomer
Mystery and Mortality: Essays on the Sad, Short Gift of Life

Mystery and Mortality: Essays on the Sad, Short Gift of Life

by Paula Bomer

Overview

Literary Nonfiction. O'Connor and Ferrante. Franzen, McCarthy, Brian Allen Carr. Kathy Acker and Wallace — MYSTERY AND MORTALITY is a collection of essays about literature. Paula Bomer focuses on the hardest things in life that inspire great writing, like the pain of loss in death, loss in love, loss in memory. Kierkegaard writes of the poet whose tortured screams from the dungeon sound like beautiful music to the king, so far removed. Here, Bomer's essays bring us back to what we're supposed to derive from literature: compassion.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780990602095
Publisher: Publishing Genius
Publication date: 04/11/2017
Pages: 120
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.40(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Paula Bomer is the author of the collection, Inside Madeleine (Soho Press, May 2014), the novel Nine Months (Soho Press, August 2012), which received exuberant reviews in The Atlantic, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, The Minneapolis Star Tribune and elsewhere. Her collection, Baby and Other Stories (Word Riot Press, December 2010), received a starred review in Publishers Weekly, calling it a "lacerating take on marriage and motherhood...not one to share with the Mommy and Me group." Kirkus Review deemed it "a worthy, if challenging, entry into the genre of transgressional fiction," and O Magazine referred to it as a "brilliant, brutally raw debut." She is also the publisher of Sententia Books and edits Sententia: The Literary Journal.
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