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Gravity Hill - A Memoir (Paperback)
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Gravity Hill - A Memoir (Paperback)
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Loot Price R565
Discovery Miles 5 650
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"The sound of parenthood is the sigh." So begins Gravity Hill,
written from the perspective of a new father seeking hope, beauty,
and meaning in an uncertain world. Many memoirs recount the
authors' experiences of growing up and struggling with their
demons; Werner's shows how old demons sometimes return on the heels
of something as beautiful as children. Werner's memoir is about
growing up, getting old, looking back, and wondering what lies
ahead-a process that becomes all the more complicated and intense
when parenting is involved. Moving backward and forward between
past, present, and future, Gravity Hill does not delineate time so
much as collapse it. Werner narrates his struggle growing up in
suburban Utah as a non-Mormon and what it took for him, his
siblings, and his friends to feel like they belonged. Bonding in
separation, they indulged in each other, in natural and urban
landscapes, and sometimes in the destructive behaviors that are the
native resort of outsiders- promiscuous and occasionally violent
sexual behavior and for some, paths to death and suicide. Gravity
Hill is the story of the author's descent into and eventual
emergence from his dysfunction into life. Infused with humor,
honesty, and reflection, this literary memoir will resonate with
readers young and old. Those in their teens and twenties may see
themselves or someone they know reflected in its pages, but so may
many readers who have pondered the meaning of their earlier risky
lives.
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