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Li, Yiyun, 1972-
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Li, Yiyun, 1972- -- Mental health.
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Li, Yiyun, 1972-
Li, Yiyun, 1972- -- Mental health.
Women novelists, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
Novelists, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
Women authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
Depressed persons -- Biography.
Chinese American women -- Biography.
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Dear friend, from my life I write to you in your life / Yiyun Li.
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Li, Yiyun, 1972-
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L693d
Subjects
Li, Yiyun, 1972- -- Mental health.
Women novelists, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
Novelists, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
Women authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
Depressed persons -- Biography.
Chinese American women -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780399589096 (hc.)
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
208 pages ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-205).
Contents:
Dear friend, from my life I write to you in your life -- Amongst people -- Memory is a melodrama from which no one is exempt -- Two lives -- Amongst characters -- To speak is to blunder but I venture -- Either/or : a chorus of miscellany -- Reading William Trevor.
Summary:
"A luminous account of a life lived with books. Written over two years while the author battled suicidal depression, this is a painful and yet richly affirming examination of what makes life worth living. Yiyun Li grew up in China and has spent her adult life as an immigrant in a country not her own. She has been a scientist, an author, a mother, a daughter - and through it all she has been sustained by a profound connection with the writers and books she loves. From William Trevor and Katherine Mansfield to Søren Kierkegaard and Philip Larkin, Dear Friend is a journey through the deepest themes that bind these writers together. Interweaving personal experiences with a wide-ranging homage to her most cherished literary influences, Yiyun Li confronts the two most essential questions of her identity: Why write? And why live? A native of Beijing, Yiyun Li is the author of four works of fiction: Kinder Than Solitude, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The Vagrants, and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl.
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