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|  | | Endings & Beginnings: Family Essays
The third and concluding volume in DeWitt Henry's trilogy in memoir, which includes Sweet Dreams: A Family History and Safe Suicide.
"The present collection [is} the most powerful book of the three"--from the Introduction by John Skoyles.
"In these superb essays, DeWitt Henry shows himself to be a master of the form. Whether he is writing about his life-long experience as a golfer or with guns or having grown up in the shadow of privilege and alcoholism, one sense that Henry is stepping nakedly, and with a clear and unsentimental eye, into the abiding mystery of the decades of his life thus far: a son, a brother, a husband, and father, a writer, a teacher, a friend. But he accomplishes | |  | | Falling: Six Stories
A collection framed by the motif of downfall, including a midlife rancher's protest against aging, a factory foreman's flight from grief, King Kong's seduction by Beauty, a writer's death-defying bungee jump, a police chief's humiliation, a Philadelphia executive's breakdown during World War II.
| |  | | Safe Suicide: Narratives, Essays and Meditations
DeWitt Henry captures the pulse of his American generation. The drama of SAFE SUICIDE is the writer’s mid-life quest for psychological and spiritual truth. By turns lyrical, quirky, confessional, and experimental in form, Henry’s essays build into an affirming and generous vision. A bungee jump becomes Henry’s central metaphor: “isn’t this life? isn’t this art? We live and trust in our safe suicides.”
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The history of a Main Line Philadelphia family in crisis.
| |  | | Sweet Marjoram: Notes and Essays
Lyrical essays on such as topics as Weather, Time, Privilege, and Empathy. "The adventure is in how, rather than in what to think," Henry writes.
| |  | | Visions of a Wayne Childhood
A series of 21 sketches portraying Wayne, PA, in the 1940s and 1950s through the eyes of DeWitt Henry, award winning novelist, essayist, Emerson Professor, and co-founder of Ploughshares literary magazine.
Brief, ironic sketches that originally ran on Radnor Patch are collected into this illustrated chapbook. The topics, such as "Best Friend," "Odd," or "Fall Away Presbyterians," suggest a template for profiling any home town, but in Henry's case, the home town of Wayne was known for its "unabashed elitism and its segregation," as commentator David Brooks put it. Most of Henry's sketches are excerpted from his earlier memoirs, but are woven together and arranged here into a unified effect. Henry writes: "Contrary to the saying tha |
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