How Literature Saved My Life by David Shields

How Literature Saved My Life

David Shields

207 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction essays memoir challenging reflective medium-paced

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Blending confessional criticism and cultural autobiography, David Shields explores the power of literature to make life survivable, maybe even endurable. Evoking his deeply divided personality, his character flaws, his woes, his serious despair, h...

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