My Sky Blue Trades (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Sven Birkerts
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: The 1950’s to the 1970’s
- Setting: Suburban Detroit and Ann Arbor, Michigan; Biddeford Pool, Maine; Boston
- Principal Characters: Sven Birkerts, Gunar Birkerts, Sylvia Birkerts, Tom Borders, Jess Zachariah, Joseph Brodsky
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: 1950’s, Maturation or coming of age, 1960’s, 1970’s, United States or Americans, Parents and children, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Middle classes, Writing, Immigration or emigration, Depression, mental, Reading, Boston, Michigan, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans, Boys, Counterculture, Massachusetts, Maine
- Locales: Boston, MA, Detroit, MI, Maine, Ann Arbor, MI
Sven Birkerts was already well established as a literary critic and essayist when he secured his lasting reputation with the critically acclaimed The Gutenberg Elegies (1995), an impassioned defense of reading and literature in an age which, he contends, celebrates the technological at the expense of the literary. Though detractors have called him a Luddite, the author’s many admirers awaited the publication of this memoir in the hope of learning more about the development of his passion for language and literature. The title of this book, My Sky Blue Trades, makes...
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