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Like Shaking Hands with GodA Conversation About Writing |
Product Details
ISBN-10
1-58322-002-X
ISBN-13
978-1-58322-002-3
Publication Date
Nov 2000
Nb of pages
64
Original Language
English
Original Publication
2000
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Description
Rarely have two writers spoken so candidly about the intersection where the lives they live meets the art they practice. That these two writers happen to be Kurt Vonnegut and Lee Stringer make this a historic and joyous occasion. Like Shaking Hands with God is a little book filled with human, profound, and beautiful musings on life and writing.
The setting was a bookstore in New York City, the date Thursday, October 1, 1998. Before a crowd of several hundred, Vonnegut and Stringer ruminated on humanity, writing, salvation, art, and the struggle and joy of living from day to day. As Vonnegut would say, "It was a magical evening." A book for Vonnegut fans, Stringer fans, and anyone interested in why the simple act of writing can be more important than the amount of memory in our computers.
ReviewsPress Reviews
USA Today Dec 9, 1999
A decade ago, when Lee Stringer was a crack addict, he lived in the lower regions of New York's Grand Central Terminal, where he built his own library of paperbacks left by commuters.
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amazon.com
Kurt Vonnegut (Breakfast of Champions): writer of wild, satiric, outrageous fiction. Lee Stringer (Grand Central Winter): one-time homeless crack addict who discovered that pencils are not just drug implements. Kurt Vonnegut and Lee Stringer: a mutual admiration society. Like Shaking Hands with God: a transcription of two moderated conversations between Vonnegut and Stringer--one before a bookstore audience, one over lunch.
- Jane Steinberg
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