
The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet
A Memoir
Kim Adrian
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 10/2018
Pages: 312
Subject: Biography and Autobiography
eBook ISBN: 9781496210265
DESCRIPTION
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kim Adrian is the author of Sock and the editor of The Shell Game: Writers Play with Borrowed Forms (Nebraska, 2018).
REVIEWS
"A stunning merger of form and content; a remarkable portrait-becomes-self-portrait; and something like a master class in complicity."—David Shields, author of Reality Hunger
"The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet is a revelation. By structuring the book in the unconventional form of a glossary, Kim Adrian allows the reader into the very intimate mechanics of her memory. Each page I read pulled me deeper under the book's peculiar spell. Through Adrian's rigorous attention to detail I found myself involuntarily drawn into her perspective, both as a child and a grown woman, hungry to make sense of this troubled family and this vibrantly unstable mother."—Alysia Abbott, author of Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father
"A vivid, vibrant glossary of a life. Adrian's sharp prose and unique form combine to illustrate how powerfully our childhoods reverberate throughout our lives."—Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic and Desire
"The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet is a revelation. By structuring the book in the unconventional form of a glossary, Kim Adrian allows the reader into the very intimate mechanics of her memory. Each page I read pulled me deeper under the book's peculiar spell. Through Adrian's rigorous attention to detail I found myself involuntarily drawn into her perspective, both as a child and a grown woman, hungry to make sense of this troubled family and this vibrantly unstable mother."—Alysia Abbott, author of Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father
"A vivid, vibrant glossary of a life. Adrian's sharp prose and unique form combine to illustrate how powerfully our childhoods reverberate throughout our lives."—Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic and Desire
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