The Resource Am I alone here? : notes on living to read and reading to live, Peter Orner ; illustrations by Eric Orner
Am I alone here? : notes on living to read and reading to live, Peter Orner ; illustrations by Eric Orner
Resource Information
The item Am I alone here? : notes on living to read and reading to live, Peter Orner ; illustrations by Eric Orner represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item Am I alone here? : notes on living to read and reading to live, Peter Orner ; illustrations by Eric Orner represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- "'Stories, both my own and those I've taken to heart, make up whoever it is that I've become,' Peter Orner writes in this collection of essays about reading, writing, and living. Orner reads and writes everywhere he finds himself: a hospital cafeteria, a coffee shop in Albania, or a crowded bus in Haiti. The result is 'a book of unlearned meditations that stumbles into memoir.' Among the many writers Orner addresses are Isaac Babel and Zora Neale Hurston, both of whom told their truths and were silenced; Franz Kafka, who professed loneliness but craved connection; Robert Walser, who spent the last twenty-three years of his life in a Swiss insane asylum, 'working" at being crazy; and Juan Rulfo, who practiced the difficult art of silence. Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, Yasunari Kawabata, Saul Bellow, Mavis Gallant, John Edgar Wideman, William Trevor, and Václav Havel make appearances, as well as the poet Herbert Morris about whom almost nothing is known. An elegy for an eccentric late father, and the end of a marriage, Am I Alone Here? is also a celebration of the possibility of renewal. At once personal and panoramic, this book will inspire readers to return to the essential stories of their own lives."--From publisher's description
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Am I alone here? : notes on living to read and reading to live
- Title
- Am I alone here?
- Title remainder
- notes on living to read and reading to live
- Statement of responsibility
- Peter Orner ; illustrations by Eric Orner
- Subject
-
- trueAuthors, American
- trueAutobiographies and memoirs
- trueBooks and reading
- Creative nonfiction
- trueEnglish literature -- 20th century
- Essays
- trueLife stories -- Arts and culture | Writing | Authors
- trueOrner, Peter
- truePersonal conduct
- trueAuthors -- Books and reading
- trueArts and entertainment -- Writing and publishing
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "'Stories, both my own and those I've taken to heart, make up whoever it is that I've become,' Peter Orner writes in this collection of essays about reading, writing, and living. Orner reads and writes everywhere he finds himself: a hospital cafeteria, a coffee shop in Albania, or a crowded bus in Haiti. The result is 'a book of unlearned meditations that stumbles into memoir.' Among the many writers Orner addresses are Isaac Babel and Zora Neale Hurston, both of whom told their truths and were silenced; Franz Kafka, who professed loneliness but craved connection; Robert Walser, who spent the last twenty-three years of his life in a Swiss insane asylum, 'working" at being crazy; and Juan Rulfo, who practiced the difficult art of silence. Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, Yasunari Kawabata, Saul Bellow, Mavis Gallant, John Edgar Wideman, William Trevor, and Václav Havel make appearances, as well as the poet Herbert Morris about whom almost nothing is known. An elegy for an eccentric late father, and the end of a marriage, Am I Alone Here? is also a celebration of the possibility of renewal. At once personal and panoramic, this book will inspire readers to return to the essential stories of their own lives."--From publisher's description
- Summary
- A collection of 41 short essays about reading and life reflects the acclaimed writer's beliefs about the role of stories in shaping his identity and includes entries on the censoring of the works of Isaac Babel and Zora Neale Hurston, the paradoxical loneliness of Franz Kafka and the dubious insanity of Robert Walser
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10540032
- Cataloging source
- VPW
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Orner, Peter
- Dewey number
- 808
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Orner, Eric
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- English literature
- Books and reading
- Authors
- Target audience
- general
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- notes on living to read and reading to live
- Label
- Am I alone here? : notes on living to read and reading to live, Peter Orner ; illustrations by Eric Orner
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- 960908934
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Extent
- xvii, 316 pages
- Isbn
- 9781936787258
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Label
- Am I alone here? : notes on living to read and reading to live, Peter Orner ; illustrations by Eric Orner
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- 960908934
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Extent
- xvii, 316 pages
- Isbn
- 9781936787258
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
Subject
- trueAuthors, American
- trueAutobiographies and memoirs
- trueBooks and reading
- Creative nonfiction
- trueEnglish literature -- 20th century
- Essays
- trueLife stories -- Arts and culture | Writing | Authors
- trueOrner, Peter
- truePersonal conduct
- trueAuthors -- Books and reading
- trueArts and entertainment -- Writing and publishing
Genre
- trueEssays
- trueLife stories
- Creative nonfiction
- trueArts and entertainment
- trueAutobiographies and memoirs
Library Locations
-
Central LibraryBorrow it200 SE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Evansville, IN, 47713, US37.971461 -87.565988
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Library Links
Embed
Settings
Select options that apply then copy and paste the RDF/HTML data fragment to include in your application
Embed this data in a secure (HTTPS) page:
Layout options:
Include data citation:
<div class="citation" vocab="http://schema.org/"><i class="fa fa-external-link-square fa-fw"></i> Data from <span resource="http://link.evpl.org/portal/Am-I-alone-here--notes-on-living-to-read-and/s7g5IrTaZFs/" typeof="Book http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/Item"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a href="http://link.evpl.org/portal/Am-I-alone-here--notes-on-living-to-read-and/s7g5IrTaZFs/">Am I alone here? : notes on living to read and reading to live, Peter Orner ; illustrations by Eric Orner</a></span> - <span property="potentialAction" typeOf="OrganizeAction"><span property="agent" typeof="LibrarySystem http://library.link/vocab/LibrarySystem" resource="http://link.evpl.org/"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a property="url" href="http://link.evpl.org/">Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library</a></span></span></span></span></div>
Note: Adjust the width and height settings defined in the RDF/HTML code fragment to best match your requirements
Preview
Cite Data - Experimental
Data Citation of the Item Am I alone here? : notes on living to read and reading to live, Peter Orner ; illustrations by Eric Orner
Copy and paste the following RDF/HTML data fragment to cite this resource
<div class="citation" vocab="http://schema.org/"><i class="fa fa-external-link-square fa-fw"></i> Data from <span resource="http://link.evpl.org/portal/Am-I-alone-here--notes-on-living-to-read-and/s7g5IrTaZFs/" typeof="Book http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/Item"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a href="http://link.evpl.org/portal/Am-I-alone-here--notes-on-living-to-read-and/s7g5IrTaZFs/">Am I alone here? : notes on living to read and reading to live, Peter Orner ; illustrations by Eric Orner</a></span> - <span property="potentialAction" typeOf="OrganizeAction"><span property="agent" typeof="LibrarySystem http://library.link/vocab/LibrarySystem" resource="http://link.evpl.org/"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a property="url" href="http://link.evpl.org/">Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library</a></span></span></span></span></div>
