Acting My Age (Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing)

by Thomas Farber

Wayne Levin (Photographer)

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Elegant, exuberant, and idiosyncratic, Acting My Age is a memoir and meditation by one of America’s most playful and inventive writers. In the words of Mary Mackey (The Jaguars That Prowl Our Dreams), "in Acting My Age, Thomas Farber gives us an unflinching, luminous, cleverly conceived meditation on his own mortality as well as on the extinction of the coral reefs, snow leopards, dolphins, and, ultimately the human species. Couching his observations in a series of short, interconnected, almost-epigrammatic essays that read like prose poems, Farber creates a narrative style reminiscent of Joyce and Melville: oceanic in depth and...Read more
  • ISBN13 9780824890384
  • Publish Date 28 February 2021
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Hawai'i Press
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 180
  • Language English