Secrets of the Universe,9780807063316

Secrets of the Universe

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Edition: Revised
ISBN13: 9780807063316
ISBN10: 0807063312
Format: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 1992-10-31
Publisher(s): Beacon Press
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Summary

Ranging from an autobiographical tour-de-force that describes a childhood spent with an alcoholic father to "Looking at Women," a reflection on male yearning and confusion, to a look at the place-or absence-of nature in recent American fiction. "Sanders looks for and often finds universal truths in the particulars of everyday life. . . . A marvelous celebration of the small and large mysteries of life." -Kirkus Reviews

Author Biography

For his personal nonfiction, Scott Russell Sanders has won the Lannan Literary Award and the Great Lakes Book Award. His books include The Paradise of Bombs, Secrets of the Universe, and Staying Put. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
I PEOPLE
Under the Influence
3(21)
Reasons of the Body
24(20)
Looking at Women
44(20)
Dust
64(19)
II PLACES
Landscape and Imagination
83(13)
Local Matters
96(8)
Signs
104(9)
Grub
113(8)
Yard Birds
121(9)
Jailhouse Blues
130(12)
Living Souls
142(45)
III PURPOSES & POWERS
The Singular First Person
187(18)
Speaking a Word for Nature
205(23)
Tokens of Mystery
228(17)
Secrets of the Universe
245

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