Tiger lilies
an American childhood
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Author
Publication
1984 - Duke University Press, Durham, N.C, North Carolina
Language
English
Word Count
53,250 words, Guess
Page Count
213 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100822305992
- ISBN-100822305933
- ISBN-139780822305996
- ISBN-139780822305934
- Goodreads3858970', '847091
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number84004170
- Better World Books9780822305934
- Open LibraryOL2842256M
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- DDCB
- LCCPS3554.A948 Z477 1984
and 1 more
- LCCPS3554.A948Z477 1984
Description
A resonant memoir of childhood and adolescence in small-town America, *Tiger Lilies* evokes with haunting clarity the home front during the years of World War II, just before, and just after. Jump-cutting... Dawson replicates the rhythm of memory itself. His keen recall of the synesthesia of a child's consciousness is universally familiar... the small details at child's eye level; the up-from-under view of the ludicrous behavior of adults. *Tiger Lilies* is a worthy companion to Dawson's other autobiographical books, *An Emotional Memoir of Franz Kline* and *The Black Mountain Book*, and is among the very best of the work of this much-admired Postmodern stylist. Fielding Dawson's ear as a writer, and his eye as a painter/writer, both function within the great tradition William Carlos Williams called 'the American idiom' while being absolutely contemporary. -- Anselm Hollo Dawson is a splendid writer, our best prosaist since Henry Miller. His new book--let's celebrate it! The hottest commodity since our American culture-exchange has had in years. -- Hayden Carruth
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