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A Solemn Pleasure: To Imagine, Witness, and Write

A Solemn Pleasure: To Imagine, Witness, and Write

Johnston, Bret Anthony
Pritchard, Melissa

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ISBN10: 1934137960
ISBN13: 9781934137963
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Published: May 12 2015
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.70 Width: 4.90 Depth: 7.40
Language: English

A writer at the height of her powers (Oprah.com) reflects on a literary life pulled in two directions: from war zone journalism to the writing and teaching of fiction

In an essay entitled Spirit and Vision Melissa Pritchard poses the question: Why write? Her answer reverberates throughout A Solemn Pleasure, presenting an undeniable case for both the power of language and the nurturing constancy of the writing life. Whether describing the deeply interior imaginative life required to write fiction, searching for the lost legacy of American literature as embodied by Walt Whitman, being embedded with a young female GI in Afghanistan, traveling with Ethiopian tribes, or revealing the heartrending story of her informally adopted son William, a former Sudanese child slave, this is nonfiction vividly engaged with the world. In these fifteen essays, Pritchard shares her passion for writing and storytelling that educates, honors, and inspires.

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