Dead Languages
Published on 1. May 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-55597-274-5 (ISBN)
Description
All of the passages of Jeremy Zorn's life are marked in some way by his stutter and his strange attempts at a cure. It is only when he enters college and learns his mother is dying that he realizes all languages, when used as hiding places for the heart, are dead ones.
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Language
English
Place of publication
MN
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
318 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55597-274-5 (9781555972745)
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David Shield's other books are Remote, A Handbook for Drowning, and Heroes. His stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Vogue, Details, the Village Voice, and Utne Reader. He lives in Seattle, where is a professor of English at the University of Washington.