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Vermeer in Bosnia

Selected Writings

By Lawrence Weschler

Paperback | 9780679777403

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There are writers who specialize in the strange and others whose genius is to find the strangeness in the familiar, the unexpected meanings in stories we thought we knew. Of that second category, Lawrence Weschler is the master. Witness the pieces in this splendidly disorienting collection, spanningContinue

There are writers who specialize in the strange and others whose genius is to find the strangeness in the familiar, the unexpected meanings in stories we thought we knew. Of that second category, Lawrence Weschler is the master. Witness the pieces in this splendidly disorienting collection, spanning twenty years of his career and the full range of his concerns–which is to say, practically everything.

Only Lawrence Weschler could reveal the connections between the twentieth century’s Yugoslav wars and the equally violent Holland in which Vermeer created his luminously serene paintings. In his profile of Roman Polanski, Weschler traces the filmmaker’s symbolic negotiations with his nightmarish childhood during the Holocaust. Here, too, are meditations on artists Ed Kienholz and David Hockney, on the author’s grandfather and daughter, and on the light and earthquakes of his native Los Angeles. Haunting, elegant, and intoxicating, Vermeer in Bosnia awakens awe and wonder at the world around us.

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  • Vermeer in Bosnia: Cultural Comedies and Political Tragedies

    Pantheon, 412 pp., $25.95 You might call Lawrence Weschler's most recent collection of peripatetic musings, Vermeer in Bosnia, a series of tangents or digressions, but this would ignore the fact the tangent is often the tale. Like a postmodern Schehe ... (read full critics)

    austinchronicle published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010

  • Vermeer in Bosnia, by Lawrence Weschler

    Pantheon, 412 pp., $37.95, hardcover. Lawrence Weschler is all about connections. Introducing his latest essay collection, Vermeer in Bosnia: A Reader , the Pulitzer-nominated author of Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder (and current director of the New ... (read full critics)

    straight published on Sun, 29 Aug 2010

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Book Details

  • English Books
  • Paperback 432 Pages
  • Edition: Reprint
  • ISBN-10: 0679777407
  • ISBN-13: 9780679777403
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • Pub date: Jul 12, 2005
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
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