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"With The Gutenberg Elegies, a widely acclaimed New York Times Notable Book, Sven Birkerts won attention as a graceful and thoughtful essayist, an eloquent advocate of literature in an age of electronic media. Now he shows what only literature can do, in a memoir that probes what it means to be an American with roots in a distant culture.".
"As a boy growing up in Detroit, Birkerts always felt deeply divided between the claims of his family's Latvian heritage and the seductions of his adopted culture. His struggle to find his own path thrust him up against the myths of his origins - the turbulent lives of his grandparents, whose artistic ambitions played out against a backdrop of revolution and war - as well as into the excesses of the 1960s counterculture.
He provides a moving saga of love and loss on the way to finding his own artistic vocation. The chronicle of a writer's painful - and comic - coming-of-age, My Sky Blue Trades is also a vivid portrait of our postwar era, from the tranquilized '50s to the present."--BOOK JACKET.
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Episcopalians, Open Library Staff Picks, Fiction, North Carolina in fiction, Timothy Kavanagh (Fictitious character), Clergy, Mitford (N.C. : Imaginary place), City and town life, Fiction, general, Mitford (n.c. : imaginary place), fiction, English teachers, Biography, Critics, Latvian AmericansShowing 6 featured editions. View all 6 editions?
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