A STEP FROM DEATH: A MEMOIR
Book ID/图书代码： 03900008B27155
English Summary/英文概要： Critically acclaimed poet, novelist, and memoirist Larry Woiwode returns to the fertile territory of his life in this stirring memoir. In this deeply afflicting memoir, Larry Woiwode addresses his son as heir to his emotional interior. A man of beautiful language and poetic sensibilities, Woiwode begins his story by relating a near-death experience with a malfunctioning hay baler caused by the kind of mistake that can kill a novice farmer. This episode launches a diffusely woven series of memories, from snippets of Woiwode’s days in New York as a young writer working with the late great William Maxwell, to his days as a young father, husband, and teacher trying to scrape enough together to buy a ranch in western North Dakota, to the prospect of an empty nest and the step from death that he finds rapidly approaching.
As Kirkus Reviews rightly said of Woiwode’s previous memoir, A Step From Death is also a work of "purest sense and sensitivity," rife with scarred beauty, naked triumphs, and vivid storytelling.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 带有争议的诗人、小说家,回忆录拽写者拉里Woiwode回到他的沃土生活在这本激动人心的回忆录中。
在这个深深痛苦的回忆录中,拉里Woiwode向他的儿子宣泄他内心的情感。一个拥有美丽语言和对诗歌敏感直觉的男人，Woiwode 通过压捆机的故障而导致一个农民初学者死亡的事情引出了他的故事。这段情节发起了他散布式的记忆。从在纽约作为一名年轻的作家和已故的威廉 马科斯韦一起工作的片断。到他成为一个年轻的父亲，丈夫。老师试图和他合并一起买个大农场，在西北方大可他洲，他们的前景时空巢。他发现来自死亡的脚步，越来越近了。
Woiwode 先前的回忆录，评论家们做出了正确的评论。从死亡中走出来也是一种工作，它是纯洁且敏感的。充满伤疤,不加装饰的胜利以及美丽生动的故事。(DJY)
Awards/获奖情况：Starred Review. One August afternoon on his farm, North Dakota poet laureate and horse farmer Woiwode makes a novice farmer’s mistake and almost loses his life in a farm accident. Using this near-death experience as his Proustian madeleine, Woiwode (Beyond the Bedroom Wall) brilliantly weaves strands of his writing life, his teaching life and his family struggles into a colorful chronicle of his journey from childhood to adulthood. In rich detail, he recalls his early days as a struggling writer in New York and his move to North Dakota in order to discover the mystery of nature and the mystic nature of place and its role in writing. As a young writer, when he read a novel a day, Woiwode remembers waking to the air of a Turgenev hunt, shaving with a razor like a character from Cather and brewing thick black coffee in honor of Colette. Woiwode regales readers with tales of parties with Roger Straus, Robert De Niro, Susan Sontag and John Cheever. At the center of these sparkling recollections of a writer’s life, however, lies the relationship of the father to the son, and Woiwode addresses his memoir to his son, Joseph, as a way of coming to terms with his failures to recognize how deeply his own father’s identity has become his own. (Mar.) ---From Publishers Weekly
About the Author/作者介绍： Larry Wiowode is the poet laureate of North Dakota. His fiction has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Harper’s, The New Yorker, and many other publications. His first novel, What I’m Going To Do, I Think, received the William Faulkner Foundation Award; his second, Beyond the Bedroom Wall, was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He lives in western North Dakota with his wife.
Larry Wiowode 是一个美国北达科塔州的桂冠诗人，他的小说出现在大西洋周刊和其他出版社，他的第1部小说，《我认为我该做什么》被授予威廉姆奖项，他的第2部小说《卧室前的墙》作为决赛作品既参加了国际书作奖又参加了国际评论奖。他和他的妻子住在美国北达科塔州的西部。
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