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Mortification by Robin Robertson (2004, HC) 1st Printing w/Protective Cover
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- Ex Libris
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- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Original Language
- English
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Inscribed
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- Edition
- First Edition
- Vintage
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- Memoir
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0007170580
ISBN-13
9780007170586
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30201707
Product Key Features
Book Title
Mortification : Writers' Stories of Their Public Shame
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Diaries & Journals, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Literary, Essays
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
15 oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2004-043445
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Robertson keeps the atmosphere light throughout, tagging delightful epigraphs onto every reminiscence." -- Philadelphia Inquirer "Entertaining reading. This is a jolly romp and will make a good stocking-filler for any authors of your acquaintance." -- Sunday Times (London) "As simple as Schott's Original Miscellany and equally effective." -- Literary Review "Full of the most achingly funny, endearing accounts of total humiliation." -- Daily Mail (London), Robertson keeps the atmosphere light throughout, tagging delightful epigraphs onto every reminiscence., Entertaining reading. This is a jolly romp and will make a good stocking-filler for any authors of your acquaintance.
Dewey Decimal
818/.50208
Synopsis
A writer's public life is not -- as is often thought -- a round of glamorous parties, prize-acceptance speeches, and triumphant readings to amphitheatres full of loyal, cheering fans; it is, in fact, a grim treadmill of humiliation and neglect. Mortification sets the record straight, once and for all. A collection of seventy specially commissioned contributions -- true stories of public indignity by some of our finest living writers -- this is a celebration of defeat, and a chance to indulge in that most malicious of pleasures: schadenfreude. You will read about dashed hopes and collapsing bowels, thwarted desire and unimpeded drinking; of fans queuing up for Stephen King's blood; Margaret Drabble bidding at a mock slave auction in Dallas; Louis de Bernières and the S&M prostitute; A. L. Kennedy's disintegrating trousers; William Boyd endorsing Shake 'n' Vac; Margaret Atwood's on-air brush with the Colostomy Association; about an author wanting to kill a member of her audience or another succeeding (accidentally) in killing his host's beloved pet. These are the best kind of stories: those told against the teller. While readers may be transfixed by the baroque twists of fate, the toe-curling embarrassments, the body's betrayals, and the mind's vanishing acts, they will also wonder at these writers' brave acknowledgment of their own vulnerability and the willingness to expose their shame, a second time, before the public., A writer's public life is not -- as is often thought -- a round of glamorous parties, prize-acceptance speeches, and triumphant readings to amphitheatres full of loyal, cheering fans; it is, in fact, a grim treadmill of humiliation and neglect. Mortification sets the record straight, once and for all. A collection of seventy specially commissioned contributions -- true stories of public indignity by some of our finest living writers -- this is a celebration of defeat, and a chance to indulge in that most malicious of pleasures: schadenfreude. You will read about dashed hopes and collapsing bowels, thwarted desire and unimpeded drinking; of fans queuing up for Stephen King's blood; Margaret Drabble bidding at a mock slave auction in Dallas; Louis de Berni res and the S&M prostitute; A. L. Kennedy's disintegrating trousers; William Boyd endorsing Shake 'n' Vac; Margaret Atwood's on-air brush with the Colostomy Association; about an author wanting to kill a member of her audience or another succeeding (accidentally) in killing his host's beloved pet. These are the best kind of stories: those told against the teller. While readers may be transfixed by the baroque twists of fate, the toe-curling embarrassments, the body's betrayals, and the mind's vanishing acts, they will also wonder at these writers' brave acknowledgment of their own vulnerability and the willingness to expose their shame, a second time, before the public.
LC Classification Number
PS135.M67 2004
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