What I Can't Bear Losing: Notes from a Life

by Gerald Stern

Book Overview

In a series of freewheeling rambles that combine autobiography and meditation, Gerald Stern explores significant and representative events in his life. He describes the dour Sundays of Calvinist Pittsburgh, punctuated by his parents' weekly battles. We have glimpses of him as a wilderness camp counselor, and later, having been declared 4-F, as a postwar draftee (a stint that includes jail). In the 1950s he savors the romance of Paris. Stern also tells...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393058182
• ISBN13: 9780393058185
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.6"