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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