Nola: A Memoir of Faith, Art, and Madness Tapa blanda - 2013 - 1st Edición
de Robin Hemley
While reconstructing the life of his schizophrenic sister, who died at the age of 25, Hemley discovers instead the terrible magic writing can yield. Photos & illustrations.
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The evidence at hand: an autobiography-- complete with their mother's edits-- written by his brilliant and disturbingly religious sister; a story featuring actual childhood events, but published as fiction; perjured court documents hidden in a drawer for decades. These are the clues Robin Hemley gathers when he sets out to reconstruct the life of his sister Nola, who died at the age of twenty-five after several years of treatment for schizophrenia. But Hemley, hampered by a "larcenous heart" that covets his sister's story for himself, discovers that finding the truth in any life-- even one's own-- is a fragmented and complex task.
"Nola: A Memoir of Faith, Art, and Madness" is much more than a remembrance of a young woman who was consumed her entire life by a passion for God. It is also a look at what people choose to reveal and conceal, and an examination of the enormous toll mental illness takes on a family. Finally, it is a revelation of the alchemy that creates a writer: confidence in the unknowable, distrust of the proven, tortuous devotion to the fine print in life, and the sacrifice to writing itself as it plays the roles of confessor, scourge, and creator.
Robin Hemley is the author of several works of nonfiction and fiction, including "Turning Life into Fiction," "The Last Studebaker," "All You Can Eat," and "The Big Ear." His work has also been published in Great Britain, Germany, and Japan, and has been heard on NPR's "Selected Shorts" and "The Sound of Writing." His awards include first prize in the Nelson Algren Award competition from "The Chicago Tribune," two Pushcart Prizes, and The George Garrett Award. Hemley presently teaches creative writing at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington.
Detalles
- Título Nola: A Memoir of Faith, Art, and Madness
- Autor Robin Hemley
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Número de edición 1st
- Edición 1
- Páginas 364
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial University of Iowa Press, U.S.A.
- Fecha de publicación 2013
- Ilustrado Sí
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9781609381790 / 1609381793
- Peso 1.05 libras (0.48 kg)
- Dimensiones 9 x 6.4 x 1 pulgadas (22.86 x 16.26 x 2.54 cm)
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Temas
- Aspects (Academic): Medical/Medicine Aspects
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Family
- Topical: Mentally Challenged
- Library of Congress subjects Schizophrenics - United States, Hemley, Nola - Mental health
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2012040602
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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