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The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer's Life
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by Floyd Skloot

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In his three previous memoirs, Floyd Skloot grappled with the brain-ravaging virus that struck him at forty-one. He was, as the San Francisco Chronicle noted, "shaping the experience of crippling illness into dazzling literature." How such alchemy is performed--where, in fact, the magic comes from--is the subject of Skloot's new book, a memoir of the making of a writer.
Sifting through memories and observations to discover how circumstance and nature conspired to make him the writer he is, Skloot enacts in this book the very process he describes, the shaping of a writer's life. Among the influences of family and close friendship, experience and popular culture, he uncovers a unique and telling perspective on the forging of a writer's individual sensibility. At the same time, his book explores fundamental questions about how life shapes the creative spirit--and how, in turn the writer makes sense of it all and gives life a new and meaningful shape in the form of literature.

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  • Title The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer's Life
  • Author Floyd Skloot
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 252
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln
  • Publication date 2008-09-01
  • Features Dust Cover, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780803211193 / 0803211198
  • Weight 0.99 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.76 x 6.28 x 0.93 in (22.25 x 15.95 x 2.36 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Authors, American - 20th century, Skloot, Floyd - Childhood and youth
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008003674
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Citations

  • Booklist, 09/01/2008, Page 25
  • Library Journal, 09/01/2008, Page 127
  • Publishers Weekly, 06/30/2008, Page 169
  • Shelf Awareness, 01/01/0001, Page 0

About the author

Floyd Skloot is the author of four novels, most recently Patient 002; six collections of poetry, including The End of Dreams; a collection of essays; and three previous memoirs. He is the winner of three Pushcart Prizes, the most recent for his essay, "The Voice of the Past," which appears in The Wink of the Zenith. His memoir In the Shadow of Memory (available in a Bison Books edition) was named a Best of 2003 nonfiction title by the Chicago Tribune and was a 2003 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award nonfiction finalist. His memoir A World of Light (Nebraska 2005) was a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice selection for 2005.

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