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Requiem for the Living: A Memoir
Jeff Metcalf
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Description for Requiem for the Living: A Memoir
Paperback. An honest, clear-eyed, and humorous reflection on life and all its muddy realities. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 340.
After nine years of keeping his prostate cancer at bay, the drugs were no longer working. The doctors told him his time was nearly up. Jeff Metcalf used this diagnosis as motivation to dive deeper into writing, tasking himself to write one essay each week for a year. His collection of fifty-two essays was chosen by the Utah Division of Arts and Museums as the winner of their 2012 Original Writing Competition. Requiem for the Living contains the best of these essays, selected and reworked by the author, who continues to defy his medical prognosis.
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After nine years of keeping his prostate cancer at bay, the drugs were no longer working. The doctors told him his time was nearly up. Jeff Metcalf used this diagnosis as motivation to dive deeper into writing, tasking himself to write one essay each week for a year. His collection of fifty-two essays was chosen by the Utah Division of Arts and Museums as the winner of their 2012 Original Writing Competition. Requiem for the Living contains the best of these essays, selected and reworked by the author, who continues to defy his medical prognosis.
The essays form ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Salt Lake City, United States
ISBN
9781607813866
SKU
V9781607813866
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99-1
About Jeff Metcalf
Jeff Metcalf is a professor of English at the University of Utah, USA and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Outstanding Faculty Award, the National Council Teachers of English Outstanding Teacher Award, and a Writers at Work Lifetime Achievement Award. His fiction and essays have appeared in local and national magazines. His plays have been widely staged. ... Read more
Reviews for Requiem for the Living: A Memoir
"I liked this book first for what it is, a cleanly written and fascinating story of a life spent paying close attention to the miracles but I also like it very much for what it isn't, and could so easily have been, —a work of self-pity, a litany of ills and blaming." —Brian Doyle, editor of Portland Magazine and author ... Read more