Lunging Into the Underbrush: A Life Lived Backward

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Linda Leith Publishing, 2021 - Biography & Autobiography - 247 pages

In 1970, David Homel escaped the American draft by moving to Paris. But a hiking accident in Spain led to a harrowing journey through botched surgeries, opiate addiction, the loneliness of a crippled traveler, and the constant pain that would define his life for years to come. Today, planning to stay in the game as long as possible, he has a few ideas about how to do just that. By confronting body image issues, performance anxiety, and the challenges of desire, Homel draws an affecting portrait of the battle between Eros and Melancholy. Which one will prevail in this story we call our lives?

Literary Nonfiction.

About the author (2021)

David Homel was born in Chicago in 1952 and left that city in 1970 for Paris, living in Europe the next few years on odd jobs and odder couches. He has published eight novels, from Electrical Storms in 1988 to The Teardown, which won the Paragraph Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction in 2019. He has also written young adult fiction with Marie-Louise Gay, directed documentary films, worked in TV production, been a literary translator, journalist, and creative writing teacher. He has translated four books for Linda Leith Publishing: Bitter Roase (2015), (2016), Nan Goldin: The Warrior Medusa (2017) and Taximan (2018). Lunging into the Underbrush is his first book of non-fiction. He lives in Montreal.

Bibliographic information

TitleLunging Into the Underbrush: A Life Lived Backward
AuthorDavid Homel
PublisherLinda Leith Publishing, 2021
ISBN177390079X, 9781773900797
Length247 pages
Subjects › 

Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
Literary Criticism / General
Self-Help / Aging
Social Science / People with Disabilities
  
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