A Place to Read: Life and Books

by Michael Cohen

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In this essay collection, Michael Cohen tells us about his surprise encounter with the remains of Frida Kahlo, about his father's murder, and about his son's close shave with death on the highway. His subjects can be as commonplace as golfing with close friends, amateur astronomy, birding, or learning to fly at the age of sixty. But he asks difficult questions about how we are grounded in space and time, how we are affected by our names, how a healthy person can turn into a hypochondriac, and how we might commune with the dead. And throughout he measures, compares and interprets his experiences through the lens of six decades of reading. The tools of the writer's trade fascinate him as do eateries in his small college town, male dress habits, American roads, and roadside shrines. He lives on the Blood River in Kentucky when he is not in the Tucson Mountains.
  • ISBN13 9781922120939
  • Publish Date 22 August 2014 (first published 7 August 2014)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country AU
  • Publisher Interactive Publications
  • Imprint Interactive Press Australia
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 257
  • Language English