{"product_id":"one-hundred-autobiographies-a-memoir-hardback-9781501746451","title":"One Hundred Autobiographies; A Memoir (Hardback) 9781501746451","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eOne Hundred Autobiographies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Memoir\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid Lehman (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501746451\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 October 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoet and critic Lehman...brilliantly captures the despair, uncertainty, and anger he felt in these 100 short reflections on life, death, and writing. Lehman's exquisite essays illustrate the ways that beauty can flow out of pain.\u003c\/p\u003e - Starred Review (Publisher's Weekly) \u003cp\u003eLehman's memoir pulses with life and memory.\u003c\/p\u003e (The New York Jewish Week) \u003cp\u003eWhile in throes of fighting cancer, David Lehman wrote every day he could, as a way of imaginatively affirming his existence and escaping the terrible ordeals of pain, dread, and emotional chaos. First of all figuring out a formal strategy, as expert poets do, Lehman then crafts a brilliant, inventive portrait of a mind, in language in which everything counts. The book's moral seriousness and theological and ancestral powers provide extreme aesthetic pleasure—Lehman's forms of language are forms of life, always life. \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Autobiographies\u003c\/i\u003e teaches and instructs its fortunate readers, like all great literature, which it is.\u003c\/p\u003e (Literary Hub)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Autobiographies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, poet and scholar David Lehman applies the full measure of his intellectual powers to cope with a frightening diagnosis and painful treatment for cancer.\u003c\/b\u003e No matter how debilitating the medical procedures, Lehman wrote every day during chemotherapy and in the aftermath of radical surgery. With characteristic riffs of wit and imagination, he transmutes the details of his inner life into a prose narrative rich in incident and mental travel. The reader journeys with him from the first dreadful symptoms to the sunny days of recovery.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis \"fake memoir,\" as he refers ironically to it, features one-hundred short vignettes that tell a life story. \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Autobiographies\u003c\/i\u003e is packed with insights and epiphanies that may prove as indispensable to aspiring writers as Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSet against the backdrop of Manhattan, Lehman summons John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Edward Said, and Lionel Trilling among his mentors. Dostoyevsky shows up, as does Graham Greene. Keith Richards and Patti Hansen put in an appearance, Edith Piaf sings, Clint Eastwood saves the neighborhood, and the Rat Pack comes along for the ride. These and other avatars of popular culture help Lehman to make sense of his own mortality and life story. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Autobiographies\u003c\/i\u003e reveals a stunning portrait of a mind against the ropes, facing its own extinction, surviving and enduring.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e 1. Execution Poem Expert\u003cbr\u003e 2. Spots of Time\u003cbr\u003e 3. Café Loup\u003cbr\u003e 4. No Big Deal\u003cbr\u003e 5. Cancer Alley\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Crisis\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Aftermath\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Procedure\u003cbr\u003e 9. The Protocol\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Good Kind\u003cbr\u003e 11. The Diarist\u003cbr\u003e 12. None But the Strong\u003cbr\u003e 13. Tropic of Cancer\u003cbr\u003e 14. Hospitals and Airports\u003cbr\u003e 15. Back to the Waiting Room\u003cbr\u003e 16. \"Hurry up, please, it's time\"\u003cbr\u003e 17. Why 1963?\u003cbr\u003e 18. Good Friday\u003cbr\u003e 19. Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate!\u003cbr\u003e 20. The Weekend Before\u003cbr\u003e 21. \"Bladder cancer: Isn't that what Sinatra died of?\"\u003cbr\u003e 22. In a Technical Sense\u003cbr\u003e 23. Five O'Clock Rush\u003cbr\u003e 24. A Heart Event\u003cbr\u003e 25. Good Show\u003cbr\u003e 26. Metaport\u003cbr\u003e 27. If You Were an English Poet\u003cbr\u003e 28. The Regimen\u003cbr\u003e 29. A Few Beacons in the Quicksand\u003cbr\u003e 30. What's the Story?\u003cbr\u003e 31. Time Is on My Side\u003cbr\u003e 32. Rush Job\u003cbr\u003e 33. Final Call\u003cbr\u003e 34. And Then You Crash\u003cbr\u003e 35. Chemo\u003cbr\u003e 36. Roid Rage\u003cbr\u003e 37. Under the Garden\u003cbr\u003e 38. The End\u003cbr\u003e 39. Falling in Love Again\u003cbr\u003e 40. Nothingness\u003cbr\u003e 41. Syllabus\u003cbr\u003e 42. Commencement Speech\u003cbr\u003e 43. The Exquisite Corpse\u003cbr\u003e 44. The Editorial \"We\"\u003cbr\u003e 45. Oblivion\u003cbr\u003e 46. Dostoyevsky\u003cbr\u003e 47. The Spiritual Connection\u003cbr\u003e 48. \"Myself, When Stoned\"\u003cbr\u003e 49. Bloomsday\u003cbr\u003e 50. Tom Collins\u003cbr\u003e 51. The Admissions Officer\u003cbr\u003e 52. Columbia\u003cbr\u003e 53. Classic Koch\u003cbr\u003e 54. The Poem Team\u003cbr\u003e 55. Shakespeare's Birthday\u003cbr\u003e 56. Recovery Room\u003cbr\u003e 57. The Rebbe\u003cbr\u003e 58. Life Beings at Forty\u003cbr\u003e 59133. Search for Meaning\u003cbr\u003e 60. The Old Religion\u003cbr\u003e 61. The Problem of Evil\u003cbr\u003e 62. Dean Martin's Hat\u003cbr\u003e 63. 740 Francs\u003cbr\u003e 64. Shalom Aleichem Rides to the Rescue\u003cbr\u003e 65. The Arrival of the Messiah\u003cbr\u003e 66. Sabbath Services\u003cbr\u003e 67. A Complicated Guy\u003cbr\u003e 68. The Patient Next to You\u003cbr\u003e 69. Cambridge\u003cbr\u003e 70. Armistice Day, 1970\u003cbr\u003e 71. The Sublime Pain of Being\u003cbr\u003e 72. The Glass Skeleton\u003cbr\u003e 73. Why Does the Bridge Not Progress?\u003cbr\u003e 74. Q \u0026amp; A\u003cbr\u003e 75. Ludlowville, 1981\u003cbr\u003e 76. Bio Note (Alt.)\u003cbr\u003e 77. Wedding Ceremony\u003cbr\u003e 78. Moscow, 2007\u003cbr\u003e 79. Group Therapy\u003cbr\u003e 80. Fort Tryon Park\u003cbr\u003e 81. Fine Invention\u003cbr\u003e 82. Identity Theft\u003cbr\u003e 83. A Routine Visit\u003cbr\u003e 84. Doctor Jew\u003cbr\u003e 85. \"Except for the cancer...\"\u003cbr\u003e 86. The Heart Knows\u003cbr\u003e 87. A Black Dress\u003cbr\u003e 88. Heisenberg as Hero\u003cbr\u003e 89. Cheers!\u003cbr\u003e 90. Walter Lehmann\u003cbr\u003e 91. Rowing in Eden\u003cbr\u003e 92. I Remember Mama\u003cbr\u003e 93. No Regrets\u003cbr\u003e 94. If I Could\u003cbr\u003e 95. The Scar\u003cbr\u003e 96. The Secret\u003cbr\u003e 97. Like a Hurricane\u003cbr\u003e 98. In the Eyes of the Beholder\u003cbr\u003e 99. 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