Nola
A Memoir of Faith, Art, and Madness
St. Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, [1998]
Format: Book
Description: 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
"Nola ""Nola is really the biography of a family, by a writer who understands the complex inter-relationships between people who love each other helplessly. Robin Hemley investigates the shifting space that so often separates spiritual quest from insanity, divides a healthy search for the light from a dangerous staring at the sun. And finally, this is a writer's story, painful, edgy, honest, and humble before mysteries even the best observer and family archivist will never understand."--Rosellen Brown "Robin Hemley has given us a haunting, strange, and beautifully luminous work in "Nola, a portrait of the artist's quest for fulfillment complete with all its attendant sorrows and joys. Powerful, moving, genuinely gut-wrenching without losing its own sense of humor and pathos, "Nola is one of the best works of nonfiction I have read in years."--Bret Lott "An eloquent elegy to his sister (possibly a suicide and almost certainly a saint), Robin Hemley's "Nola is the extraordinarily movingstory of a,rational man's education into mystery and magic." --David Shields
ISBN:
1555972780
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