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The Book of Delights: Essays
by Ross Gay
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Synopsis : Ross Gay?s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays?some as short as a paragraph; some as long as five pages?that record the small joys that occurred in one year, from birthday to birthday, and that we often overlook in our busy lives. His is a meditation on delight that takes a clear-eyed view of the complexities, even the terrors, in his life, including living in America as a black man; the ecological and psychic violence of our consumer culture; the loss of those he loves. Among Gay?s funny, poetic, philosophical delights: the way Botan Rice Candy wrappers melt in your mouth, the volunteer crossing guard with a pronounced tremor whom he imagines as a kind of boat-woman escorting pedestrians across the River Styx, a friend?s unabashed use of air quotes, pickup basketball games, the silent nod of acknowledgment between black people. And more than any other subject, Gay celebrates the beauty of the natural world?his garden, the flowers in the sidewalk, the birds, the
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Author : Ross Gay
Pages : 288 pages
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Language : eng
ISBN-10 : 1616207922
ISBN-13 : 9781616207922