The Resource The unspeakable : and other subjects of discussion, Meghan Daum
The unspeakable : and other subjects of discussion, Meghan Daum
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The item The unspeakable : and other subjects of discussion, Meghan Daum represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.This item is available to borrow from 6 library branches.
Resource Information
The item The unspeakable : and other subjects of discussion, Meghan Daum represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 6 library branches.
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- "A master of the personal essay candidly explores love, death, and the counterfeit rituals of American life In her celebrated 2001 collection, My Misspent Youth, Meghan Daum offered a bold, witty, defining account of the artistic ambitions, financial anxieties, and mixed emotions of her generation. The Unspeakable is an equally bold and witty, but also a sadder and wiser, report from early middle age. It's a report tempered by hard times. In "Matricide, " Daum unflinchingly describes a parent's death and the uncomfortable emotions it provokes; and in "Diary of a Coma" she relates her own journey to the twilight of the mind. But Daum also operates in a comic register. With perfect precision, she reveals the absurdities of the marriage-industrial complex, of the New Age dating market, and of the peculiar habits of the young and digital. Elsewhere, she writes searchingly about cultural nostalgia, Joni Mitchell, and the alternating heartbreak and liberation of choosing not to have children. Combining the piercing insight of Joan Didion with a warm humor reminiscent of Nora Ephron, Daum dissects our culture's most dangerous illusions, blind spots, and sentimentalities while retaining her own joy and compassion. Through it all, she dramatizes the search for an authentic self in a world where achieving an identity is never simple and never complete"--
- "Essays on American sentimentality and its impact on the way we think about death, children, patriotism, and other matters"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 244 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250074928
- Label
- The unspeakable : and other subjects of discussion
- Title
- The unspeakable
- Title remainder
- and other subjects of discussion
- Statement of responsibility
- Meghan Daum
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- "A master of the personal essay candidly explores love, death, and the counterfeit rituals of American life In her celebrated 2001 collection, My Misspent Youth, Meghan Daum offered a bold, witty, defining account of the artistic ambitions, financial anxieties, and mixed emotions of her generation. The Unspeakable is an equally bold and witty, but also a sadder and wiser, report from early middle age. It's a report tempered by hard times. In "Matricide, " Daum unflinchingly describes a parent's death and the uncomfortable emotions it provokes; and in "Diary of a Coma" she relates her own journey to the twilight of the mind. But Daum also operates in a comic register. With perfect precision, she reveals the absurdities of the marriage-industrial complex, of the New Age dating market, and of the peculiar habits of the young and digital. Elsewhere, she writes searchingly about cultural nostalgia, Joni Mitchell, and the alternating heartbreak and liberation of choosing not to have children. Combining the piercing insight of Joan Didion with a warm humor reminiscent of Nora Ephron, Daum dissects our culture's most dangerous illusions, blind spots, and sentimentalities while retaining her own joy and compassion. Through it all, she dramatizes the search for an authentic self in a world where achieving an identity is never simple and never complete"--
- "Essays on American sentimentality and its impact on the way we think about death, children, patriotism, and other matters"--
- Assigning source
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- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1970-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Daum, Meghan
- Dewey number
- 814/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3604.A93
- LC item number
- A6 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Label
- The unspeakable : and other subjects of discussion, Meghan Daum
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn882620066
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 244 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250074928
- Lccn
- 2014014643
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Label
- The unspeakable : and other subjects of discussion, Meghan Daum
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn882620066
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 244 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250074928
- Lccn
- 2014014643
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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Cleveland Park LibraryBorrow it3310 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC, 20008, US38.9338203 -77.05791820000002
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