Aura

by Clay Morgan

Signed by Author Clay Morgan. This book is very good condition. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0917652363
• ISBN13: 9780917652363
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Confluence Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A thought provoking read

An interesting book about a man who is willing to sacrifice his body and health in the interests of art and about the woman who loved him. Worth the effort to locate a used copy.

This was one of those books that flung me into space

And turned me into a writer, basically. I'm from Idaho, and sometime in the 90's, when I was in high school, I found a used copy of this book on a shelf. Since then, of course, I've lost my copy to years of shifting cities, and it is not exactly easy to find another. Nevertheless, I remember reading this book, the descriptions of epileptic auras, the writing style, and thinking "this is really it." Suddenly, I knew that I could write, that it was possible. It was one of those life changing books, in terms of defining creativity, somehow. I recommend it highly. It's wonderful. I admit, it's been ten or eleven years since I've read it, but that doesn't matter much. In my personal pantheon it ranks high. As well, Clay Morgan's smoke jumping NPR narratives are terrific. All hard to get hands and ears on, but worth the search.

I wrote "Aura."

I wrote this novel. It published in 1983 after winning an Idaho Fiction Competition. It's about an epileptic artist whose self-induced auras become more than he bargained for. I think only 600 copies were printed, maybe a few hundred more. Since then, I've published another novel, "Santiago and the Drinking Party" (Viking Penguin, Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award), a couple of photo-geography books, and a history of NASA's program with the Russians, "Shuttle-Mir." Dutton will pubish my young readers novel, "The Boy Who Spoke Dog," in November 2003.