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Dead Languages

Dead Languages

Dead Languages Paperback - 1998

by David Shields

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Graywolf Press, 1998. Paperback. Like New. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title Dead Languages
  • Author David Shields
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition New
  • Pages 246
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Graywolf Press, Saint Paul, MN
  • Publication date 1998
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G1555972748I2N00
  • ISBN 9781555972745 / 1555972748
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.47 x 5.4 x 0.74 in (21.51 x 13.72 x 1.88 cm)
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 97080079
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

In Dead Languages by David Shields, Jeremy Zorn's mother tries unsuccessfully to coax him into saying "Philadelphia," and his life becomes framed by his unwieldy attempts at articulation. Through family rituals with his word-obsessed parents and sister, failed first love, an ill-fated run for class president, as the only Jewish boy on an otherwise all-black basketball team, all of the passages of Jeremy's life are marked in some way by his stutter and his wildly off-the-mark attempts at a cure. It is only when he enters college and learns his strong-willed mother is dying that he realizes all languages, when used as hiding places for the heart, are dead ones.

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 12/01/1998, Page 163
  • New York Review of Books, 04/26/2012, Page 32

About the author

David Shields's other books are Remote, A Handbook for Drowning, and Heroes. His stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Vogue, Details, the Village Voice, and Utne Reader. He lives in Seattle, where is a professor of English at the University of Washington.

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