In a Dark Wood: A Memoir - Tapa blanda

"Powerful and indispensable, Joseph Luzzi unites emotion and ideas in a work that defies categorization, except for the category marked 'brilliant.' If every academic wrote like this, the humanities would be prospering."--Gary Shteyngart, New York Times bestselling author of Little Failure and Super Sad True Love Story

"An engrossing struggle to build a life after enormous personal loss and the luminous power of literature to transform sorrow's exile into a kind of blessing."--New York Journal of Books

"A heartfelt memoir...[Luzzi's] is a quest so universal that we can all fin ourselves in his struggle."--Christian Science Monitor

"This is not an academic book about Dante. It's an elegant and moving memoir of one man's journey through grief and finally back to life."--Albany Times Union

"Luzzi's new memoir transforms unthinkable tragedy into literary gold. More than simply a memoir of mourning, In a Dark Wood testifies to the life-giving importance of literature and what it has to teach us."--BookPage.com

"Joseph Luzzi lived through something terrible, and has made something beautiful. In a Dark Wood is a memoir of love and loss; but more than that, it is a powerful testimony to the consolation--even salvation--that an engagement with great literature can supply."--Rebecca Mead, author of My Life in Middlemarch

"Heartbreaking. Heartrending. Heart-stopping."--Vanity Fair

"Luzzi's story is intensely personal, but holds universal appeal for anyone who has experienced love and loss. As he grasps blindly for routes out of his personal underworld, both he and the reader discover that only a change of mind and heart can open the way to love and fulfillment."--Booklist

"Luzzi honestly grapples with profound questions about being a man and father in this very literary and very personal work."--Publishers Weekly

"A forthright chronicle of emergence from darkness."--Kirkus Reviews