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Robert Benson's Blood and Memory is a wonderfully various memoir that combines family history, exact detail, lively anecdote, droll humor, sustained narrative, and wise reflection upon life's vicissitudes and mysteries. It is a book that rewards reading of any kind. The reader will be repaid by picking up the book at any point and reading a piece at random; the dividends will be considerably greater for intensely engaging the work from beginning to end, for it is artfully shaped, not haphazardly assembled. Its pace is both quick and cumulative in force.

The author unfolds the story of his life in and out of the academy: his adventures and misadventures as son and husband and father; his forays as a hunter and his struggles with dogs and other creatures; his vocation as teacher and writer; his brushes with death as crises in his health occur; his meditations on our common mortality. Of particular interest now are the vivid accounts describing hurricanes in and around New Orleans during the late 1940s and early 50s.

All in all this dazzling work of reminiscence and reflection enriches and enhances our understanding of life's pitfalls and possibilities. What more can any reader ask of an author?
About the Author: ROBERT BENSON, a native of New Orleans, was educated at Vanderbilt University and the University of Southern Mississippi, Southeastern Louisiana University, the University of Dallas, and the University of Sewanee, Tennessee, where he teachers medieval English literature at the University of the South. He has published work on Chaucer, Andrew Lytle, John Donald Wade, Cormac McCarthy, J.F. Powers, and others, and he is a regular contributor to the periodical press, particularly to the Sewanee Review.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781881515906
  • Publisher: Texas Review Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Texas Review Press
  • Height: 223 mm
  • No of Pages: 168
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Weight: 403 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1881515907
  • Publisher Date: 15 May 2006
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Memoir
  • Width: 147 mm


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