Unframed Originals: Recollections - Softcover

Merwin, W. S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1593760345 ISBN 13: 9781593760342

Publisher: Catapult, 2004

Synopsis

In this haunting, elegantly written memoir, W. S. Merwin recalls in utterly unsentimental prose his youth, growing up in a repressed Presbyterian household in the small river towns of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The complex portrait that emerges of a family without language or history, transforms the story of their isolated lives into the development of a writer’s conscience and a warning about the fate of a middle class eager to obliterate origins.

"This book is superbly written, offering deep glimpses into the complexities and mysteries of family bonds, with just that distancing from people and events necessary for artistic control." Edmund Fuller, Wall Street Journal

About this title

About the Author:

W. S. Merwin is the author more than forty books of poetry, prose, and translation, including The Carrier of Ladders, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize in poetry. He has been honored with the Bollingen Award, the first Tanning Award, the Ruth Lilly Prize, and many others. He has lived for many years in Hawaii.

Review:

"A narrative of exceptional poignance. An American odyssey by an emigre from his own country."

About this edition

• Publisher: Catapult
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1593760345
• ISBN 13: 9781593760342
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 252