Loitering: New and Collected Essays

ISBN: 1935639870

Author: D'Ambrosio, Charles

Condition: New

New York TimesNotable BooksWinner of the Washing State Book PrizeFinalist for the 2015 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay Charles DAmbrosios essay collection Orphans spawned something of a cult following. In the decade since the tiny limited-edition volume sold out its print run, its devotees have pressed it upon their friends, students, and colleagues, only to find themselves begging for their copys safe return. For anyone familiar with DAmbrosios writing, this enthusiasm should come as no surprise. His work is exacting and emotionally generous, often as funny as it is devastating. Loitering gathers those eleven original essays with new and previously uncollected work, so that a broader audience might discover one of our great living essayists. No matter his subject-Native American whaling, a Pentecostal hell house, Mary Kay Letourneau, the work of J.D. Salinger, or, most often, his own family-DAmbrosio approaches each piece with a singular voice and point of view; each essay, while unique and surprising, is unmistakably his own.