The Endless Search: A Memoir - Hardcover

Ray, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1887128522 ISBN 13: 9781887128520

Publisher: Soft Skull Press, 2003

Synopsis

David Ray’s soul search, recounted in this powerful illustrated memoir, is a Dickensian tale encompassing a childhood in an orphanage, an endless series of abusive uncles,” and an adolescence haunted by a sadistic guardian, followed by a tumultuous adulthood marked equally by tragedy and triumph. With rare candor and unsentimentality, Ray winner of the William Carlos Williams Award, the Marianne Moore Award, and the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award writes about finding hope within a society that first generates abusers then empowers them, ignoring victims’ pleas for help and enforcing their silence.

About this title

About the Author:

David Ray is the Founding Editor of New Letters.

Review:

David Ray's work has always been radiant even though personal tragedy has suffused it. -- Studs Terkel

I've always been touched by David Ray's work...he speaks eloquently of the depth possible in private life. -- Robert Bly

Ray's quest is alternately heartbreaking and chilling, yet...never lapses into narcissism or self-pity...A riveting and well-written narrative... -- Kirkus Reviews

[Ray] brings ferocious intelligence to his work....The outcome has been so shining. -- Richard Rhodes, winner of The Pulitzer Prize

About this edition

• Publisher: Soft Skull Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1887128522
• ISBN 13: 9781887128520
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 260