How Literature Saved My Life by David Shields
A candid hybrid memoir and literary meditation in which the narrator traces how encounters with books and writers transformed his life, offering fragmented essays that blend personal confession, criticism, and homage; the pieces map struggles with loneliness, illness, and identity while celebrating reading as a salvific, reshaping force, and the book’s experimental forms underscore the intimate, sometimes urgent relationship between art and survival.
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- Published
- 2013
- Nationality
- American
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- Original Language
- English
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