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A Book of Reasons

A Book of Reasons

A Book of Reasons
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A Book of Reasons

by John Vernon

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0618082352
ISBN 13
9780618082353
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Mariner Books, October 2000. Paperback. USED Good.

Synopsis

In this "heartwarming tale of brotherly love" (WALL STREET JOURNAL), John Vernon "lifts us high, confronting basic questions about the nature of existence itself and the peculiar objects that sustain this transient life" (Jay Parini). When his reclusive brother Paul died, Vernon came face to face with a life he had never suspected. He found his brother's house in a state of squalid disrepair: piled high with a lifetime of trash, littered with animal corpses and excrement, unheated and decrepit. An assembly worker in the electronics industry and an amateur inventor, Paul had managed to keep his private world hidden from his family and acquaintances. The love between brothers is an unconditional love -- unearned, and realized almost always from a distance. Who really was this man that writer and teacher John Vernon loved? How could a childhood so full of promise turn wrong? Why do we collect things; what use do they have? How do we make and understand our world? In search of answers, this "superb writer" (SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE) leaps from one odd, individual life to all our lives and the things that clutter them, with excursions through the history of science, anatomy, and mythology. The result is revelatory, a brilliant account of the extraordinary source of everyday things. "An artful lamentation of two remarkable worlds" (VILLAGE VOICE), A BOOK OF REASONS is John Vernon's devastatingly tender memoir about coming to terms with the fact that the people we love most are often the people we know the least about. It is also a daring exploration of loss and self-discovery.

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Bookseller
Montclair Book Center US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
543667
Title
A Book of Reasons
Author
John Vernon
Format/Binding
Paperback
Book Condition
USED Good
Quantity Available
1
ISBN 10
0618082352
ISBN 13
9780618082353
Publisher
Mariner Books
Place of Publication
Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.s.a.
Date Published
October 2000
Pages
292

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