Beginning with a father's dramatic account of the birth of his daughter and ending with an imminent death, this volume presents 20 essays in which writers grapple with being fathers of daughters.
Beginning with a father's dramatic account of the birth of his daughter and ending with an imminent death, this volume presents 20 essays in which wri...
A masterful memoir of a young boy's passage from childhood to adulthood in a family of privilege torn by dark secrets: alcoholism, mental illness, dysfunction. As a complicated coming of age story, Sweet Dreams charts the journey of DeWitt Henry, well-known author, editor, publisher and educator, in his earliest struggles to find and achieve his own creative destiny. It is what Richard Hoffman calls ..".a remarkable feat of memory delivered in extraordinary prose."
A masterful memoir of a young boy's passage from childhood to adulthood in a family of privilege torn by dark secrets: alcoholism, mental illness, dys...
A series of 21 sketches portraying Wayne, PA, in the 1940s and 1950s through the eyes of DeWitt Henry, award winning novelist, essayist, Emerson Professor, and co-founder of Ploughshares literary magazine.
A series of 21 sketches portraying Wayne, PA, in the 1940s and 1950s through the eyes of DeWitt Henry, award winning novelist, essayist, Emerson Profe...
In contrasting styles and voices, Henry presents a mid-life rancher's protest against aging, a factory foreman's flight from grief, King Kong's seduction by Beauty, a writer's death-defying bungee jump, a police chief's humiliation, and a Philadelphia executive's breakdown during World War II. De Casibus is the lyrical motif.
In contrasting styles and voices, Henry presents a mid-life rancher's protest against aging, a factory foreman's flight from grief, King Kong's seduct...
