Fenton Johnson 
Scissors, Paper, Rock [PDF ebook] 
A Novel

Stöd

Along with his siblings, Raphael Hardin left his childhood home in rural Kentucky. Grappling with an AIDS diagnosis, he returns to care for his dying father. Told from the perspectives of Raphael, his family, and their lifelong neighbor, Fenton Johnson’s landmark novel reveals the blood struggles and binding loves of a broken family made whole.

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Foreword by Pam Houston
High Bridge
Back Where She Came From
Little Deaths
All Fall Down
The Way Things Will Always Be
Cowboys
Guilt
Scissors, Paper, Rock
Some Kind of Family
Where Do We Come From, What Are We, Where Are We Going?
Miss Camilla Speaks
Acknowledgments

Om författaren

Fenton Johnson is the author of At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life, a New York Times Editors’ Pick. He is author of the novels The Man Who Loved Birds; Scissors, Paper, Rock; and Crossing the River. In nonfiction, Johnson has published Geography of the Heart: A Memoir and Keeping Faith: A Skeptic’s Journey among Christian and Buddhist Monks. Geography received the American Library Association and Lambda Literary Awards for best LGBT Creative Nonfiction, while Keeping Faith received a Lambda Literary and Kentucky Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction. His collection Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays (2017) touches on topics as diverse as San Francisco in the AIDS epidemic to spirituality to a youthful encounter with Ike and Tina Turner. A regular contributor to Harper’s Magazine, Johnson has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts in both fiction and nonfiction and has been featured on Terry Gross’s Fresh Air. He has written the narrations and served as associate producer on several award-winning, internationally screened documentaries, among them Stranger with a Camera and La Ofrenda: Days of the Dead. He has taught in the graduate programs of Columbia, New York University, Sarah Lawrence College, and San Francisco State University. He is currently emeritus professor at the University of Arizona and teaches writing workshops across the nation. He is currently writing the histories of his enslaved and slave-owning Kentucky ancestors as well as that of his great-grandfather, a Union soldier.

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Språk Engelska ● Formatera PDF ● Sidor 274 ● ISBN 9780813166575 ● Filstorlek 1.6 MB ● Utgivare The University Press of Kentucky ● Stad Lexington ● Land US ● Publicerad 2016 ● Nedladdningsbara 24 månader ● Valuta EUR ● ID 7522320 ● Kopieringsskydd Adobe DRM
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