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An astounding work of doubles by Albert Goldbarth, a dazzling virtuoso who can break your heart (Joyce Carol Oates) Albert Goldbarths first book of essays in a decade, The Adventures of Form and Content is about the mysteries of dualities, the selves we all carry inside, the multiverses that we are. This collection takes its shape from the ACE Doubles format of the 1950 turn this book one way, and read about the checkered history of those sci-fi and pulp fictions, or about the erotic poetry of Catullus and the gravelly songs of Springsteen, or about the high gods and the low-down blues, a city of the holy and of the sinful; turn this book the other way, and read about prehistoric cave artists and NASA astronauts, or about illness and health, or about the discovery of planets and the discovery of oneself inside an essay, or about soul ships and space ships, the dead and the living; or turn the book any way you want, and this book becomes an adventure of author and reader, form and content. Goldbarths essays have pioneered and inspired new forms of nonfiction writing for thirty years. Robert Atwan, the series editor for The Best American Essays , praises his work by stating, These es
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Goldbarth, Albert
- Publisher
- Minneapolis, Minnesota: Graywolf Press
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781555977610
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.95 / 5 (19 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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