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The Love of Impermanent Things
Mary Rose O'Reilley
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Description for The Love of Impermanent Things
Paperback. BIC Classification: BM; VXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 182 x 21. Weight in Grams: 440.
At midlife, Mary Rose O’Reilley writes, we are called to an “archaeology of memory”—turning over a potsherd here, a fragment there—to assemble something whole out of the messiness of experience. Excavating her own life, she traces the middle-class Irish American background that shaped her, with its mix of antic humor, terror, and mysticism, and finds meaning in the seemingly smallest, most transient encounters. But O’Reilley’s purpose is less to recount these moments than it is to find the language for a different kind of story, in which the narrative of daily life opens to admit the holy and its ... Read more
At midlife, Mary Rose O’Reilley writes, we are called to an “archaeology of memory”—turning over a potsherd here, a fragment there—to assemble something whole out of the messiness of experience. Excavating her own life, she traces the middle-class Irish American background that shaped her, with its mix of antic humor, terror, and mysticism, and finds meaning in the seemingly smallest, most transient encounters. But O’Reilley’s purpose is less to recount these moments than it is to find the language for a different kind of story, in which the narrative of daily life opens to admit the holy and its ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Milkweed Editions United States
Number of pages
302
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Minneapolis, United States
ISBN
9781571313126
SKU
V9781571313126
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