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Gut
Feelings
A
Writer's Truths and Minute Inventions
Merrill
Joan Gerber
"One reads Gerber headlong,
driven to turn her pages as rapidly as possible, leaping toward
resolution."—Cynthia
Cynthia Ozick
In these highly personal essays and powerful tales that verge
on memoir, Merrill Joan Gerber opens to us her life and work
as a writer. She is candid and unflinching in revealing the truths
and inventions of a writer's vision and the use of life as the
raw material of art. Her personal essays range widely, from the
mysteries of love and marriage to painful encounters with suicides
and family deaths.
Gerber writes
of her apprenticeships with celebrated writing teachers Andrew
Lytle and Wallace Stegner and recounts her ghostly (and ghastly)
experiences during a month at Yaddo, the famous retreat for artists.
Gerber includes three pieces in the book—originally published
as stories—but which blur the line between fiction and memoir,
demonstrating Gerber's contention that the deepest secrets in
life beget the most passionate fictions.
"These
pieces move back and forth across the boundary between memoir
and fiction. Vivid and gripping, they offer memorable characters
and events. One narrative moves deeply into a marital relationship—suggesting
a kind of paradigm for the systole and diastole of marriage that
I found profoundly moving. And troubling. And satisfying."—Janet
Burstein, Drew University
Merrill Joan Gerber teaches creative writing at the California
Institute of Technology. Her most recent book is Botticelli
Blue Skies: An American in Florence, also published by
the University of Wisconsin Press. Her many novels, short story
collections, and non-fiction works include King of the World,
The Kingdom of Brooklyn, Anna in Chains, Anna in the Afterlife,
and Old Mother, Little Cat.
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March
2003
180 pp. 6 x 9
ISBN 0-299-18350-5 Cloth $24.95t
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