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I Just Lately Started Buying Wings: Missives From The Other Side Of Silence (2010)

by Kim Dana Kupperman(Favorite Author)

3.79 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1555975607 (ISBN13: 9781555975609)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Graywolf Press

review 1: If you're looking for a model collection of essays whose meaning and impact as a whole is greater than the sum of its parts, then Kim Dana Kupperman's I JUST LATELY STARTED BUYING WINGS is the essay collection for you. Kupperman exercises every tool in the nonfiction writer's toolbox. She is creative, imaginative, and descriptive. The essays in this collection are heartbreaking and honest. Each essay unfolds into the next essay with seamlessness ease, transitions as natural as flight. I could study her writing for weeks.
review 2: This "meh" review might have more to do with the fact that I've never been all that interested in reading the confessional memoir genre than any distaste I felt toward the book itself. In fact, I'm not exactly sure why I bought this ... morebook in the first place. I think I just liked the title. So it's a goodness of fit thing, really. The writing is interesting at times, has a strong poetic flair, and is thoughtfully crafted. Overall, though, it's just not my particular cup of tea. Speaking of which, now might also be a good time to mention that I don't like tea. less

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