Dear friend, from my life I write to you in your life / Yiyun Li.
Publication details: Penguin Books, 2018Description: 208 pages ; 20 cmISBN: 9780241978665Subject(s): Chinese American authors -- Biography | Depressed persons -- Biography -- United StatesSummary: Written in the grip of suicidal depression, "Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life" is an uplifting account of what makes life worth living. Yiyun Li interweaves personal experiences of her childhood in China and her adulthood forging a new life in America with meditations on the many writers she admires - from William Trevor to Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf to Ivan Turgenev. And with quiet integrity, she confronts the fundamental questions that define an author - why write? And why live?| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Written in the grip of suicidal depression, "Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life" is an uplifting account of what makes life worth living. Yiyun Li interweaves personal experiences of her childhood in China and her adulthood forging a new life in America with meditations on the many writers she admires - from William Trevor to Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf to Ivan Turgenev. And with quiet integrity, she confronts the fundamental questions that define an author - why write? And why live?
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