The Smoke Week: Sept. 11-21, 2001
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (956 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1928589243 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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-- Jacqueline Woodson, author of Hush"Her account is more intimate and real than any other I have come across." -- Robert Canzoneri, author of A Highly Ramified Tree"Here is Witness. "goes right to the heart of what the living do and shows us a world" of healing. Here is Testimony." -- Maxine Hong Kingston
Notable Award 2004 Writers Notes Book Award for Culture & Winner of the Ohioana Library's Walter Rumsey Marvin Award--A New Yorker's personal account of the events of the worse terrorist attack the USA has ever faced.-- "Here is Witness. Here is Testimony."--Maxine Hong Kingston
Beautiful Memoir of September 11th A Customer Two years after September 11th 2001 it has become difficult for many of us to remember what those days felt like. Even at the time the media were busy selecting what we would see, hear, and know. The emphasis at the time was on those who died and those who lost family members and friends to death. The vociferous antiwar sentiment among so many New Yorkers never made it to TV or major newspapers. Since then the whole event has been swallowed up in the political narratives we tell about what followed.Ellis Avery's THE SMOKE WEEK is an incredibly immediate account of some ordinary New Yorkers grappling wi. "Stay Human" A Customer Ellis Avery's The Smoke Week is an extraordinary book. By turns telegraphic, conversational, intimate, and lyrical -- even, around the edges, a little funny -- she writes of the first hours and days after the destruction of the World Trade Center with an attention to detail and a refusal of cliché that puts most other accounts of those days to shame. It's as though, right there downtown with disaster coming on, she began to observe as carefully and compassionately as she possibly could, to keep herself sane -- and the fine sentences here, the precisely rendered stories, are the result.I see a bu. A lyrical memorial to a wounded city Natania Rosenfed This is a beautiful book of lyrical diary entries from Sept. 11 and the ensuing week. The writer is deeply thoughtful and compassionate; an epicure and a true lover of New York City in all its variety, its bohemianism, its verve and democratic spirit--all of which are captured in short but rich prose poems. I was moved over and over by the empathy that informs Avery's portraits of the burning towers, of grieving relatives and friends, of people passed on the street, of her beloved Sharon. And I am convinced that a major press would have taken this book if the author weren't forthright about her lesbian
ELLIS AVERY is the author of "The Teahouse Fire", winner of Lambda, Ohioana, and American Library Association awards, and the personal narrative "The Smoke Week", about life in downtown Manhattan during and after 9/11/01. . She teaches fiction writing at Columbia University and lives in New York City