On the edge of action. True believer: my friendship with Cynthia Ozick -- Letters home from college: the making of a writer -- At the DMV -- A life in letters -- The found desk -- My suicides -- Why I must give up writing -- The harpsichord on the mountain -- The lost airman: a memoir of World War Two -- On the edge of action.
Summary:
"These powerful essays share critical moments of a writer's life: scenes from sixty years of passionate married love; suicides faced and suicide contemplated; trauma at the DMV; a night lost searching for a harpsichord in the mountains of Florence, Italy; the tale of a beloved cousin whose plane is shot down by Japanese Zeros; and a precious friendship between two women writers derailed by the poisons of religion and politics. In the titular essay (included in Best American Essays 2023) a food bank, assuaging the pandemic's terrors with gifts of food and prayers, becomes a portal for intimate confidences entrusted to us by a voice of unspoiled authenticity and perennial vigor."-- Provided by publisher.
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