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Ambivalence: An Education

Ambivalence: An Education

Dillon, Brian

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Biographies GeneralLiterary FiguresLiterary Criticism

Publisher Price: $18.95

ISBN13: 9798896231103
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Sep 8 2026
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
A coming-of-age memoir set in late-twentieth-century Dublin, recounting writer and critic Brian Dillon's first encounters with pivotal writers in his life--Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, Walter Benjamin, and others--and in the process arguing for the transformative power of art, literature, and learning.

When Brian Dillon was sixteen his mother died, and he stopped caring about school. While he courted failure, his real education was going on elsewhere: with books, music, films, and television. When against all odds he made it to college, his head was already full of avant-garde writing, art, and ideas. Could he live up to the hopes and dreams he attached to culture? Halfway through college his father died, and the stakes of Dillon's education seemed even higher.

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