Rough Likeness: Essays by Lia Purpura

Rough Likeness: Essays

Lia Purpura

224 pages first pub 2011 (view editions)

nonfiction essays reflective slow-paced
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This book is ideal for readers who savor slow, meditative explorations of everyday details transformed into profound revelations through precise and lyrical language.

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Lia Purpura’s essays are full of joy in the act of intense observation; they’re also deliciously subversive and alert to the ways language gets locked and loaded by culture. These elegant, conversational excursions refuse to let a reader slide ove...

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