Dead Languages

by David Shields
language: english
Publisher: GRAYWOLF PRESS,U.S., May of 1998 ‧
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All of the passages of Jeremy Zorn's life are marked in some way by his stutter and his strange attempts at a cure. It is only when he enters college and learns his mother is dying that he realizes all languages, when used as hiding places for the heart, are dead ones.

Dead Languages

by David Shields

Property Description
ISBN: 9781555972745
Publisher: GRAYWOLF PRESS,U.S.
Release Date: May of 1998
Language: English
Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 20 mm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 256
Format: Book
Collection: A Graywolf Rediscovery
Categories: Books in English > Fiction > Fiction
Books in English > Others
EAN: 9781555972745

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

David Shields

David Shields é autor de oito livros, tanto de ficção como de não-ficção, incluindo Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season, finalista do National Book Critics Circle Award; Remote, vencedor do PEN/Revson Award; e Dead Language: A Novel, vencedor do prémio PEN Syndication Fiction.
Editor sénior da revista Conjunctions, publicou ensaios e artigos em dezenas de jornais e revistas, incluindo The New York Times Magazine, Harper's Magazine, Yale Review, Village Voice, Salon, Slate, McSweeney's e The Believer.
Vive com a mulher e a filha em Seattle, onde é professor no Departamento de Inglês da Universidade de Washington.

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