Wisdom in Nonsense: Invaluable Lessons from My Father: CLC Kreisel Lecture Series
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ISBN-13: 9781772123777
ISBN-10: 1772123773
Pagini: 64
Dimensiuni: 139 x 203 x 4 mm
Greutate: 0.09 kg
Editura: University of Alberta Press
Colecția University of Alberta Press (CA)
Seria CLC Kreisel Lecture Series
ISBN-10: 1772123773
Pagini: 64
Dimensiuni: 139 x 203 x 4 mm
Greutate: 0.09 kg
Editura: University of Alberta Press
Colecția University of Alberta Press (CA)
Seria CLC Kreisel Lecture Series
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Recenzii
...a warm and funny collection of memories of ONeills dad, a single parent. Look up Wisdom In Nonsense. Buy it. Give it to your own father. He will understand, and it will bring you closer. Holly Doan, Blacklock's Reporter, April 28, 2018
"[Heather O'Neill's] father shared hard-earned wisdom culled from early years as a petty criminal through to his work as a kind of philosopher-janitor. Unfortunately, his enthusiasm for dispensing life advice was in direct opposition to its practical application. But it certainly makes for good reading.... [This] collection, like all of her work, is filled with humour, moments of joy, sudden bursts of deep emotion and heartbreaking sincerity... The lesson in Wisdom in Nonsense is how a writer uses autobiography to inform fiction." -- Michael Melgaard -- National Post, 20180217
"Wisdom in Nonsense offers up a selection of life lessons given to ONeill as a child which come to act not as hard-and-fast rules but as guideposts to an occasionally odd-ball yet always sincere process of reflection on childhood, writing, and the father-daughter bond.... Reading about her connection with her father and the way in which they lived on the margins of society comes to illuminate ONeills ability to depict the strange, perhaps even unexpected beauty of such bonds in her fiction." Erin Della Mattia Priarie Fire
# 7 on Edmonton Non-Fiction Bestsellers list, April 15, 2018 -- 20180415
"Heather O'Neill's Wisdom in Nonsense...is in some ways strange. Strange because it reads less like a biography of the late Buddy O'Neill, which it is, and more like an absurd instruction manual for living. Stranger still is the wisdom shared; although Buddy's advice is never categorically wrong, it is often preposterous and abstract. Despite the strangeness of it all, O'Neill generously translates her father's eccentricities and antics into a reflection on how much and how little one can learn from a parent, and how that learning is complicated by class and circumstance.... O'Neill elicits belly laughs and makes space for the quiet sadness of loving parents who will always be complicated to learn from and to remember." Canadian Literature, October 9, 2018 [Full review at http://canlit.ca/article/something-to-be-learned] -- Gabrielle Mills
"Bestselling novelist Heather O'Neill's book is a slim, funny and moving account of childhood and her experience of being raised by a colourful--and criminal--father. In this tender volume, O'Neill shares the life lessons she learned from her father and his eccentric friends." -- Matthew Stepanic & Jason Purcell, Edmonton Journal -- 20191219
"[Heather O'Neill's] father shared hard-earned wisdom culled from early years as a petty criminal through to his work as a kind of philosopher-janitor. Unfortunately, his enthusiasm for dispensing life advice was in direct opposition to its practical application. But it certainly makes for good reading.... [This] collection, like all of her work, is filled with humour, moments of joy, sudden bursts of deep emotion and heartbreaking sincerity... The lesson in Wisdom in Nonsense is how a writer uses autobiography to inform fiction." -- Michael Melgaard -- National Post, 20180217
"Wisdom in Nonsense offers up a selection of life lessons given to ONeill as a child which come to act not as hard-and-fast rules but as guideposts to an occasionally odd-ball yet always sincere process of reflection on childhood, writing, and the father-daughter bond.... Reading about her connection with her father and the way in which they lived on the margins of society comes to illuminate ONeills ability to depict the strange, perhaps even unexpected beauty of such bonds in her fiction." Erin Della Mattia Priarie Fire
# 7 on Edmonton Non-Fiction Bestsellers list, April 15, 2018 -- 20180415
"Heather O'Neill's Wisdom in Nonsense...is in some ways strange. Strange because it reads less like a biography of the late Buddy O'Neill, which it is, and more like an absurd instruction manual for living. Stranger still is the wisdom shared; although Buddy's advice is never categorically wrong, it is often preposterous and abstract. Despite the strangeness of it all, O'Neill generously translates her father's eccentricities and antics into a reflection on how much and how little one can learn from a parent, and how that learning is complicated by class and circumstance.... O'Neill elicits belly laughs and makes space for the quiet sadness of loving parents who will always be complicated to learn from and to remember." Canadian Literature, October 9, 2018 [Full review at http://canlit.ca/article/something-to-be-learned] -- Gabrielle Mills
"Bestselling novelist Heather O'Neill's book is a slim, funny and moving account of childhood and her experience of being raised by a colourful--and criminal--father. In this tender volume, O'Neill shares the life lessons she learned from her father and his eccentric friends." -- Matthew Stepanic & Jason Purcell, Edmonton Journal -- 20191219
Cuprins
Prelude 1 Lesson 1 | Never Keep a Diary 3 Lesson 2 | Learn to Play the Tuba 5 Lesson 3 | Never Share Your Scientific Research 7 Lesson 4 | Make Friends with Jewish Kids 9 Lesson 5 | Accept That You're Ugly and Move On 11 Lesson 6 | Never Tell Anyone What Your Parents Do for a Living 13 Lesson 7 | Know About Art History 15 Lesson 8 | Crime Does Pay 17 Lesson 9 | Enjoy a Fondue Dinner 19 Lesson 10 | Respect Old Timers 23 Lesson 11 | It's the Thought That Counts 27 Lesson 12 | Never Watch a Paul Newman Movie 31 Lesson 13 | Beware of Clowns 35 Coda | Sometimes There Is Nothing to Be Learned 39