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Possibility: Essays Against Despair
Author(s): Patricia Vigderman (Author)
- Publisher: Sarabande Books
- Publication Date: 16 May 2013
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 184 pages
- ISBN-10: 1936747545
- ISBN-13: 9781936747542
Book Description
“Vigderman specializes in elliptical, epigrammatic insight that makes connectiosn that readers might not otherwise perceive…. Perhaps the most provocative essay and the emotional centerpiece is “My Depressed Person (A Monologue),” which interweaves a critical assessment of David Foster Wallace’s short story “The Depressed Person” with Vigderman’s own experience dealing with the depression of someone close to her, and perhaps her own as well.”
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Editorial Reviews
Review
—Publishers Weekly
“Vigderman specializes in elliptical, epigrammatic insight that makes connections that readers might not otherwise perceive. Most of the essays (many of them little longer than a page or two) were published independently, and all can stand on their own, but the author has provided a conceptual framework and thread of continuity as she groups them into four parts, moving from Internal Conversations” to The Measure of Grief ” in the opening and two most compelling sections…. Frequent illumination within the density of compression, as the writer challenges readers to determine what they’re thinking and feeling about what she’s thinking and feeling.”
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“Though the book’s title might resemble that of a self-help book, the essays in Vigderman’s collection dwell not on despair, but on the project of translating chaotic experience into art or memory…. She is enthusiastic about beautiful language and new words–and her writing, lyrical and graceful, shows it.”
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“Vigderman specializes in elliptical, epigrammatic insight that makes connections that readers might not otherwise perceive. Most of the essays (many of them little longer than a page or two) were published independently, and all can stand on their own, but the author has provided a conceptual framework and thread of continuity as she groups them into four parts, moving from “Internal Conversations” to “The Measure of Grief ” in the opening and two most compelling sections…. Frequent illumination within the density of compression, as the writer challenges readers to determine what they’re thinking and feeling about what she’s thinking and feeling.”
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