Revertigo: An Off-Kilter Memoir - Tapa dura

Skloot s memoir resembles Joan Didion s "The Year of Magical Thinking, " with his revisiting past experiences to make sense of those things that make no sense. . . . A lovely read, "Revertigo" s story of acceptance creates a memoir to embrace. "North American Review"" Skloot s memoir resembles Joan Didion s The Year of Magical Thinking, with his revisiting past experiences to make sense of those things that make no sense. . . . A lovely read, Revertigo s story of acceptance creates a memoir to embrace. North American Review" With the inquisitive approach of a scientist, the sensibility of a poet, and the humor of the resigned, Skloot presents vertigo as a metaphorical condition of humanity. Geoff Kronik, Colorado Review " A beautifully written, moving account. Who would have imagined that a memoir exploring months of extreme vertigo and decades of neurological turbulence would be filled with so much joy and optimism? This gentle, wise, and perceptive memoir never fails to surprise. Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic & Desire " A sophisticated yet highly entertaining example of how memoir should serve us. Ron Slate, author of Incentive of the Maggot, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry " "With the inquisitive approach of a scientist, the sensibility of a poet, and the humor of the resigned, Skloot presents vertigo as a metaphorical condition of humanity."--Geoff Kronik, "Colorado Review " "A sophisticated yet highly entertaining example of how memoir should serve us."--Ron Slate, author of "Incentive of the Maggot," finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry "A beautifully written, moving account. Who would have imagined that a memoir exploring months of extreme vertigo and decades of neurological turbulence would be filled with so much joy and optimism? This gentle, wise, and perceptive memoir never fails to surprise."--Dinty W. Moore, author of "Between Panic & Desire"

In this pioneering volume, Robert Skloot brings together four plays - three of which are published here for the first time - that fearlessly explore the face of modern genocide. The scripts deal with the destruction of four targeted populations: Armenians in Lorne Shirinian's Exile in the Cradle, Cambodians in Catherine Filloux's Silence of God, Bosnian Muslims in Kitty Felde's A Patch of Earth, and Rwandan Tutsis in Erik Ehn's Maria Kizito. Taken together, these four plays erase the boundaries of theatrical realism to present stories that probe the actions of the perpetrators and the suffering of their victims. A major artistic contribution to the study of the history and effects of genocide, this collection carries on the important journey toward understanding the terror and trauma to which the modern world has so often been witness.