Name: the end of youth
Price: 18.22 EUR
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Author: Rebecca Brown
ISBN: 9780872864184

Type

Physical Book

Author

Rebecca Brown

Publisher

City Lights Books

Language

English

Pages

123

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

18.6 x 12.8 x 1.0 cm

Weight

0.15 kg.

ISBN

0872864189

ISBN13

9780872864184

Synopsis "the end of youth"

The End of Youth is a collection of 13 linked stories, essays and rants, about carrying on after youth's hope is gone. In Afraid of the Dark, a child learns that there is good reason to be afraid. The adolescent narrator of Description of a Struggle finds that love can be brutal. The Smokers examines an adult's realization that longevity means seeing loved ones die. Written with the same spare and vivid beauty as her earlier award-winning works, The End of Youth is certain to win even wider acclaim.Throughout her writing career, Brown has exhibited a rare sensitivity in delving into difficult, uncomfortable material--death, disease, imperfect bodies and minds . . . in this slim book . . . there's also humor and sensuality so intense it's visionary . . . --San Francisco ChronicleA strange and wonderful first-person voice emerges from the stories of Rebecca Brown, who strips her language of convention to lay bare the ferocious rituals of love and need.--The New York Times Book ReviewRarer than the newness, the wit, the vivid readability, is the deep caring understanding, the wholeness, the truth with which this astonishing, haunting writer creates her people.--Tillie OlsenIn The End of Youth, her new collection of stories and essays, Brown turns [a] gentle yet relentless gaze onto herself--or rather, onto scenes remembered from her childhood. The result is effortlessly perverse and frequently hilarious.--BooklistRebecca Brown is the author of The Terrible Girls, Annie Oakley's Girl, The Gifts of the Body and The Dogs. She lives in Seattle.

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Rebecca Julia Brown (May 21, 1948 - June 23, 2020), born Ruth Irene Bailey, was a controversial American Christian writer known for claiming in her books to have liberated people from occultism in Indiana and other parts of the United States. She was married to Daniel Michael Yoder since December 10, 1989, and led the religious group Harvest Warriors, or as it is also known, Warriors of the Harvest.

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