Between Panic and Desire by Dinty W. Moore (English) Paperback Book

Description: Between Panic and Desire by Dinty W. Moore ""Insouciant"and "irreverent"are the sort of words that come up in reviews of Dinty W. Moores books and, invariably, "hilarious".Between Panic and Desire, named after two towns in Pennsylvania, finds Moore at the top of his astutely funny form. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description "Insouciant" and "irreverent" are the sort of words that come up in reviews of Dinty W. Moores books-and, invariably, "hilarious." Between Panic and Desire, named after two towns in Pennsylvania, finds Moore at the top of his astutely funny form. A book that could be named after one of its chapters, "A Post-Nixon, Post-panic, Post-modern, Post-mortem," this collection is an unconventional memoir of one man and his culture, which also happens to be our own. Blending narrative and quizzes, memory and numerology, and imagined interviews and conversations with dead presidents on TV, the book dizzily documents the disorienting experience of growing up in a postmodern world. Here we see how the major events in the authors early life-the Kennedy assassination, Nixons resignation, watching Father Knows Best, and dropping acid atop the World Trade Center, to name a few-shaped the way he sees events both global and personal today. More to the point, we see how these events shaped, and possibly even distorted, todays world for all of us who spent our formative years in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. A curious meditation on family and bereavement, longing and fear, self-loathing and desire, Between Panic and Desire unfolds in kaleidoscopic forms-a coroners report, a TV movie script, a Zen koan-aptly reflecting the emergence of a fractured virtual America. Notes A multigenre postmodern memoir of growing up in search of an American father Author Biography Dinty W. Moore is a professor of English at Ohio University and the author of several books, including Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy: Advice and Confessions on Writing, Love, and Cannibals, The Truth of the Matter: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction, and The Accidental Buddhist: Mindfulness, Enlightenment, and Sitting Still. Table of Contents AcknowledgmentsPrologue: Between Panic and DesirePart One. Panic1. Introduction: Hello, My Name Is _______2. Son of Mr. Green Jeans: A Meditation on Missing Fathers3. Double Vision4. Son of Richard M. Nixon5. Three Bad Trips, 1968-776. Questions and Activities before ContinuingPart Two. Paranoia7. Introduction: Imagine That8. Baseball, Hot Dogs, Mescaline, and Chevrolet9. Number Nine10. 198411. Questions and Activities before ContinuingPart Three. Desire12. Introduction: Why Oprah Doesnt Call13. Son of George McManus14. Three Milestones15. Leonard Koan16. Son of a Bush17. Three Days in September18. What You Want, What You Get, What You Need: A Post-Nixon, Post-panic, Post-modern, Post-mortem19. "Curtis Knows Best": Towering, Permanent, Perilous, and Soon to be Televised on a Widescreen Near You20. The Final ChapterIndexAbout the Author Review "Hear that? That is the sweet sonic boom of the Baby Boom barrier being broken by this elegant flight of essays launched from the steely hand of Captain Dinty W. Moore in his remarkable memoir "Between Panic and Desire". Impossible, they said, to reveal this precisely that sense of time, place, and even space. Listen: Read, read, read. Words away! Thats it. Exactly. Like that."---Michael Martone, author of "Michael Martone: Fictions" "Dinty W. Moores prose is crisp and clean, his insights sparkle with biting clarity and magnetic charm. This is an unusual, joyful and compelling memoir."---Lee Gutkind, author of "Almost Human: Making Robots Think" and editor of "Creative Nonfiction" "This is a refreshing and invigorating book, taking the predictable memoir form in new directions---playfully, sincerely, and intelligently. This is a terrific book."---Bret Lott, author of "Jewel" Promotional A multigenre postmodern memoir of growing up in search of an American father Review Quote "This is a refreshing and invigorating book, taking the predictable memoir form in new directions-playfully, sincerely, and intelligently. This is a terrific book."-Bret Lott, author of Jewel Details ISBN0803229828 Author Dinty W. Moore Short Title BETWEEN PANIC & DESIRE Language English ISBN-10 0803229828 ISBN-13 9780803229822 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2010 Country of Publication United States Birth 1955 Residence US Affiliation Pennsylvania State University - Altoona Publication Date 2010-03-01 UK Release Date 2010-03-01 AU Release Date 2010-03-01 NZ Release Date 2010-03-01 US Release Date 2010-03-01 Pages 168 Publisher University of Nebraska Press Series American Lives DEWEY 973.92 Illustrations 2 illustrations Audience General Imprint University of Nebraska Press Place of Publication Lincoln We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159381650;

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