Possibility: Essays Against Despair

by Patricia Vigderman

Book Overview

Possibility: Essays Against Despair attempts to translate some of life's disordered events into the orderly happiness of art. The book includes encounters with manatees, children, and snakes; with Henry Adams, Marcel Proust, and W.G. Sebald; with Texas landscape, Vertigo, and Vermeer. Adams, in Japan after his wife's death, found in the elaborate ritual of the tea ceremony and in the discomforts of a rural inn, occasions for the wit to face...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1936747545
• ISBN13: 9781936747542
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Sarabande Books
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"