e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Call Number
Item Barcode
Bib Number
ISBN/ISSN
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
Library Journal Review
Publisher Weekly Review
Table of Contents
More Content
More by this author
Daum, Meghan, 1970-
Subjects
Daum, Meghan, 1970-
American essays -- 21st century.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Daum, Meghan, 1970-
by title:
The unspeakable : an...
Essays. Selections....
by call number:
814.6 D241u
Search the Web
Daum, Meghan, 1970-
Daum, Meghan, 1970-
American essays -- 21st century.
MARC Display
The unspeakable : and other subjects of discussion / Meghan Daum.
by
Daum, Meghan, 1970-
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
Call #:
814
.6
D241u
Subjects
Daum, Meghan, 1970-
American essays -- 21st century.
ISBN:
9780374280444 (hc.)
0374280444 (hc.)
Uniform title:
Essays. Selections.
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
244 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"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"--From publisher.
Genre:
Essays.
Memoirs.
Holds:
0
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Woodlawn Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
814.6 D241u
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Central Library
Adult Nonfiction
814.6 D241u
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.