These powerful personal narratives by the renowned author of Living Up the Street are clear and precise renderings of seemingly mundane moments. There is a delirious joy in Soto's writings, and heartbreak. This collection features his much-lauded essays The Jacket and Like Mexicans, along with new essays such as Childhood Worries, or Why I Became a Writer, Getting It Done, and the title essay in which Soto fashions himself to be Fresno's own Knut Hamsun, the Norwegian writer of the 1920s who lived on nothing more than his five senses. Written from the heart, tempered by intelligence and enlivened by imaginative spirit, these clear and deceptively simple accounts surprise, enlighten, and refresh.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Persea Books Inc
ISBN-13
9780892553983
eBay Product ID (ePID)
184398036
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Effects of Knut Hamsun on a Fresno Boy: Recollections and Short Essays
Author
Gary Soto
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Poetry, Literary Theory
Publication Year
2000
Number of Pages
220 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
216mm
Item Width
140mm
Item Weight
426g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Gary Soto
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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