My Sky Blue Trades (Advance Uncorrected Proof) Soft Cover Soft cover - 2002
by Sven Birkerts
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In The Gutenburg Elegies, a widely acclaimed New York Times Notable Book, Sven Birkerts won attention as a graceful and thoughtful essayist, an eloquent advocate of literature in an age of electronic media. Now he shows what only literature can do, in a moving, compelling, brilliantly written memoir that probes what it means to be an American with roots in a distant culture.
As a boy growing up in suburban Detroit, Birkerts always felt intensely uncomfortable with his family's ties to Latvia-the birthplace of all four of his grandparents. And yet his struggle to find his own path led inexorably back through the overgrown garden of family lore. Birkerts deftly weaves his own history (from struggles with his overbearing father to adventures at Woodstock, from lost loves to his emergence as a writer) with episodes from his ancestors' lives-scenes from Riga and Moscow during the Russian Revolution, tales of Paris and mistresses and family scandals. My Sky Blue Trades is destined to be a classic exploration of the immigrant experience and the writer's inner life.
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- Title My Sky Blue Trades (Advance Uncorrected Proof) Soft Cover
- Author Sven Birkerts
- Binding Soft cover
- Edition Advance Uncorrected Proof
- Condition New
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Viking, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2002
- Bookseller's Inventory # 031236
- ISBN 9780670031092 / 0670031097
- Weight 0.98 lbs (0.44 kg)
- Dimensions 8.54 x 6.38 x 1 in (21.69 x 16.21 x 2.54 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Critics - United States, English teachers - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001046907
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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