Maps to Anywhere (Signed)

Cooper, Bernard

ISBN 10: 0820311901 / ISBN 13: 9780820311906

Published by University Of Georgia Press, Signed, 1990

About this Item

Hardcover in dust jacket. First edition, first printing. SIGNED, warmly inscribed, and dated by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page. Book and protected jacket are in As New condition, sharp, crisp and clean. From the estate of screenwriter Charles Eastman, whose credits include the 1970s films "The All-American Boy" and "Little Fauss and Big Halsy. " Essays about Southern California. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 139 pages; Signed by Author.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Maps to Anywhere (Signed)
• Publisher: University Of Georgia Press, Signed
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820311901
• ISBN 13: 9780820311906
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

A collection of essays offers the author's unique perspective on a variety of topics, including his embarrassment over his father's career as an unorthodox lawyer and the loss of his brother to leukemia

Reviews

As its title intimates, this set of essays captures the open-ended, rootless feel of modern life. Cooper, whose writings have appeared in Harper's and Grand Street , lets his imagination play freely over sundry topics--barber poles, learning to draw, modern architecture, dinosaurs, photography, Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon, being childless. Growing up in Southern California, he dreamed of utopias while his "home life resisted perfection." From his father, and from the taste of horseradish, he learned that pleasure can merge with pain. He writes movingly of his brother dying of leukemia, and of his hyperenergetic, eccentric father, a lawyer who took on odd cases. Cooper's ironic tone is at once self-deprecating and subverting of the reader's preconceptions. Autobiographical fragments, prose poems, spiels and mini-essays crafted with precision are dazzling, elusive shards in this jigsaw.
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