Geography of the Heart by Fenton Johnson
From the author of the award-winning novels Crossing The River and Scissors, Paper, Rock comes a powerful book about the transformative power of love. Fenton Johnson recounts the history of how I feel in love how I came to be with someone else, how he came to death and how I helped. Johnson interweaves two stories: his own upbringing as the youngest of a Kentucky whiskey maker's nine children, and that of his lover LarD Rose, the only child of German Jews. survivors of the Holocaust.
Johnson, Fenton: - Fenton Johnson is the author of award-winning fiction and literary nonfiction, including the novels Scissors, Paper, Rock and The Man Who Loved Birds, as well as Keeping Faith: A Skeptic's Journey among Christian and Buddhist Monks and Geography of the Heart: A Memoir. He is associate professor of creative writing at the University of Arizona and teaches in the MFA program at Spalding University in Louisville.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780671009830 |
| ISBN 10 | 0671009834 |
| Title | Geography of the Heart |
| Author | Fenton Johnson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Year published | 1997-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Prizes | Winner of Lambda Literary Awards (Men's Memoir/Biography) 1996 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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