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"What do you do for a living?" the podiatrist (or the photographer or the woman in the train station) asks, and Joan Connor answers, "I’m a writer," waiting with a cringe for the inevitable rejoinder: "Oh, boy, do I have a story for you!"

How such offerings, not stories but small reports from the thick of life, become rich reflections on the nature of waiting and writing, language and love, memory and hope, is the mystery of this award-winning collection of essays. Traveling between the poles of Ohio and Vermont, childhood and motherhood, Connor writes of a peripatetic family whose oddities make the quirks of a Thurber household seem downright subdued; of a thirteen-year-old son as an unlikely companion through the torments of middle-aged dating; of old loves and new; and through it all, of writing as a means of finding the shortest distance between two lines: hope. With language that distills insight from anecdote and transforms the stuff of middling life into telling metaphor, The World Before Mirrors, winner of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize, lifts the telling of a life’s stories into the realm of flight.

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Publié par	Bison Books
Date de parution	01 juin 2006
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780803257665
Langue	English

Informations légales : prix de location à la page 0,0750€. Cette information est donnée uniquement à titre indicatif conformément à la législation en vigueur.

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R ive r Te e th Lite ra r y N o n fictio n P rize

ser ies editors: Daniel Lehman,Ashland University Joe Mackall,Ashland University

The River Teeth Literary Nonﬁction Prize is awarded to the best work of literary nonﬁction submitted to the annual contest sponsored byRiver Teeth: A Journal of Nonﬁction Narrative.

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The World Before Mirrors

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University of Nebraska Press | Lincoln and London

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The author has ﬁctionalized names and events in the collection.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Connor, Joan. The world before mirrors / Joan Connor. p. cm.—(River teeth literary nonﬁction prize) isbn-13:978-0-8032-6455-7(pbk.: alk. paper) isbn-10:0-8032-6455-0(pbk.: alk. paper) I. Title. II. River teeth literary nonﬁction prize (Series) ps3553.o514255w67 2006 814'.54—dc22 2005029667

Set in Minion by Bob Reitz. Designed by A. Shahan.

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To the great state of Verm ont and Norman, m y love.

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Contents

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Acknowledgments

Sleeping with Thurber

My Son at Thirteen

The Waiting Room

Forsaken Places

Raising Abel The World Before Mirrors Bone Key Masque Abandoned Shoe

The Flying Rabbit and the Disappearing Playground

Tolstoy’s Daughter

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Acknowledgments

“Sleeping with Thurber” and “Masque” ﬁrst appeared inUnder the Sun. “My Son at Thirteen” appeared inThe Heartlands Today; “The Waiting Room” inRiver Teeth; “Forsaken Places” inThe Mid-American Review; “The World Before Mirrors” inThe Gettysburg Review; “Bone Key” in The Black Warrior Review; “Abandoned Shoe” inTerra Incognita; and “Tolstoy’s Daughter” in The Connecticut Review. Some of the essays appeared in slightly different versions.

The author wishes to thank Clint McCown for the phrase in the title essay and title.

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