Author Event: Dust to Dust by Benjamin Busch
Submitted by Room on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 5:43pm
03/29/2012 6:30 pm
Tim O’Brien meets Annie Dillard in this tough and tender debut memoir about our passage through life from a decorated Marine and actor who played a cop in The Wire
“Every religious practice I know contains a facet in which
knowledge of your own mortality draws you closer to the ultimate truth.
Now this brave soldier with his singular sensibility renders for us a
life borne of that wisdom. With hippie parents denying him even a
plastic cowboy gun, Benjamin Busch nonetheless was molded into one of
Camus’s perfect men: alert in the instant with a clear-eyed view of
contingency and reflexes to act. In Dust to Dust, he builds us a fort we’re loath to leave.”—Mary Karr, author The Liars’ Club, Cherry, and Lit
Location:
- Street:
- 307 W Johnson St.
- City:
- Madison ,
- Province:
- Wisconsin
- Postal Code:
- 53703-2218
- Country:
- United States
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