Thinking about Things and Other Frivolities

by Edward Farley

This memoir records the story of the author's personal journey toward a life of university teaching and probes that story in reflective essays on a variety of subjects. One group of essays has to do with the characteristic activities and institutional setting of a professor. Other essays explore ways of experiencing the world as mysterious, beautiful, and tragic. One piece offers a rather somber account of current ways in which the American experiment...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 149821665X
• ISBN13: 9781498216654
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"