Biography & Autobiography Personal Memoirs
Lunging into the Underbrush
A Life Lived Backward
- Publisher
- Linda Leith Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2021
- Category
- Personal Memoirs, Aging
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781773900797
- Publish Date
- Mar 2021
- List Price
- $21.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781773900803
- Publish Date
- Mar 2021
- List Price
- $12.95
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Description
In 1970, David Homel escaped the American draft by moving to Paris. But a hiking accident in Spain led to a harrowing journey through botched surgeries, opiate addiction, the loneliness of a crippled traveler, and the constant pain that would define his life for years to come.
Today, planning to stay in the game as long as possible, he has a few ideas about how to do just that. By confronting body image issues, performance anxiety, and the challenges of desire, Homel draws an affecting portrait of the battle between Eros and Melancholy. Which one will prevail in this story we call our lives?
About the author
David Homel was born in Chicago in 1952 and left that city in 1970 for Paris, living in Europe the next few years on odd jobs and odder couches. He has published eight novels, from Electrical Storms in 1988 to The Teardown, which won the Paragraph Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction in 2019. He has also written young adult fiction with Marie-Louise Gay, directed documentary films, worked in TV production, been a literary translator, journalist, and creative writing teacher. He has translated four books for Linda Leith Publishing: Bitter Roase (2015), (2016), Nan Goldin: The Warrior Medusa (2017) and Taximan (2018). Lunging into the Underbrush is his first book of non-fiction. He lives in Montreal.
Editorial Reviews
"If I have to age, I hope I do it the way David Homel has: kicking and screaming and laughing at the demons. In Lunging, he reminds us that aging is just another word for growing, and that to grow is to remain vitally alive." ?Wayne Grady, author of Up From Freedom
"Homel is proposing a new definition of agin, and his book takes a most surprising turn when it looks into the sexuality of people as they age." “?Le Journal de Montréal
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