Another Insane Devotion by Peter Trachtenberg
From journalist, teacher, and award-winning author: an intellectual cat book exploring the mysteries of love and marriage, intimacy and privacy, pleasure and obligation with a lightness and intellectual depth.
Eileen Myles, author of Cool for You and Inferno "This is Peter's best book and if you don't know what that means just imagine your sweetest, most perverse storytelling friend asks to meet because he has a confession to makeWhen you arrive he informs you that he loves his cat more than life itself, or exactly that much and then he opens his shirt and shows you the cat tattoo and then he begins to tell you of his love and in a puff hours vanish and it's absolutely riveting." Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City "I am not a cat person--I approach each one on a cat-by-cat basis--yet Peter Trachtenberg is such a wonderful writer, and this book is so damn good, that I found myself carried along by its lucidity, its generosity, its deep wisdom. In the end, of course, Another Insane Devotion is about much more than cats." Publishers Weekly, 9/10/12 "Through short sections of intelligent, often humorous prose, former and potential girlfriends and past pets are conjured in hopes of understanding how people can fall in and out of love...Trachtenberg's journey proves entertaining and enlightening." T: The New York Times Style Magazine, 10/7/12 "Another Insane Devotion--about love, sex, marriage and especially cats--is a hallmark of brainy discursiveness." Booklist, 11/15/12 "[A] meditation on the meaning(s) of love...Trachtenberg's lyric writing keeps the reader interested...making for a memoir that reads like a compelling work of fiction." Chronogram, November 2012 "Spiked with intellectual digressions and unlikely graphics, Trachtenberg's eccentric meditation on loss and transition is not your everyday cat book...[He] uses language as a flensing tool, peeling back layers to glimpse deeper truths." Chicago Tribune, 12/2/12 "This is surely the best book written about what it means to love cats, and to wonder if they love you, since Carl Van Vechten's The Tiger in the House." Hudson Valley News, 11/14/12 "The season's most eccentric book...You'll have many smiles and a few tears while reading...The story of...the fierce and tender bonds of love between people and between people and cats...The book, in all its richness and humor,...tells us about loving a cat, loving a human being and where those loves can take us." InfoDad.com, 11/29/12
Peter Trachtenberg is the author of The Book of Calamities and 7 Tattoos: A Memoir in the Flesh. He is the recipient of Whiting Writers Award, a Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction, and a Bellagio Residency. He is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. PeterTrachtenberg.com
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| ISBN 13 | 9780738217291 |
| ISBN 10 | 0738217298 |
| Title | Another Insane Devotion |
| Author | Peter Trachtenberg |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Hachette Books |
| Year published | 2013-10-08 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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