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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