Quotidiana: Essays

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2014

In Quotidiana Patrick Madden illuminates common actions and seemingly commonplace moments, making connections that revise and reconfigure the overlooked and underappreciated. Madden muses on the origins of human language, the curative properties of laughter, and the joys and woes of fatherhood. Sparked by considerations of selling garlic, washing grapes, changing a diaper, or chipping a tooth, his essays are an antidote to the harried hullabaloo of talk-show and tabloid culture—and a reminder that we are surrounded by wonders that whisper to the curious and attentive.
Ingenuous and erudite, and with a beguiling wit, Madden examines the intricate tapestry of ordinary life in its extraordinary patterns. His book is a poetic and engaging exploration of the unexpectedly wide scope of our everyday existence.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780803249240
ISBN-10: 0803249241
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 17 photographs, 24 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Nebraska Paperback
Colecția University of Nebraska Press
Locul publicării:United States

Notă biografică

Patrick Madden is an assistant professor of English at Brigham Young University. His essays have appeared in the Iowa Review, Portland Magazine, Fourth Genre, Hotel Amerika, and other journals, as well as in the The Best Creative Nonfiction and The Best American Spiritual Writing anthologies. Visit his Web site www.quotidiana.org.

Cuprins

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
The Infinite Suggestiveness of Common Things
Laughter
Remember Death
Garlic
Ego Vici Mundum
Gravity and Distance
Panis Angelicus
Asymptosy
Singing
Hepatitis
Finity

Recenzii

"Words form constellations; they glitter on the pages. . . . There is a religiosity here, though not the usual kind. It's a glow on the horizon, a low light, something to think our way toward."—Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times

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