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Legends of the Slow Explosion: Eleven Modern Lives
Literary Nonfiction. Multi-genre literary master Baron Wormser's new book is about people from the mid-twentieth century whose lives created ripple effects beyond their individuality. Including electrifying portraits of Rosa Parks, Hannah Arendt, Miles Davis, Audrey Hepburn, Willem de Kooning, among others, these are not conventional "biographical" essays. Wormser has created a molten, multi-dimensional prose that brings a reader into the visceral presence of these human catalysts.
- GenresEssaysNonfiction
174 pages, Paperback
Published April 1, 2018
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October 18, 2023
Not an easy read, but well worth the effort. Some of the most satisfying sentences since Roth died. For instance:
"The daily sobriety that living required frightened you more than your own dark frights. Whatever blasted landscape those frights represented -- your parents' divorce, war, your ungainly sensitivity -- they were your frights. If the way could be harder and more self-defeating, that was your way. "
"The daily sobriety that living required frightened you more than your own dark frights. Whatever blasted landscape those frights represented -- your parents' divorce, war, your ungainly sensitivity -- they were your frights. If the way could be harder and more self-defeating, that was your way. "
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