Gravity Hill: a memoir

by Werner, Maximilian

Type Book

Rate 0.0 /5

Details

Files

Reviews

Download

Title Statements

Full title :Gravity Hill : a memoir / Maximilian Werner.

Summary

"The sound of parenthood is the sigh." So begins Gravity Hill, written from the perspective of a new father seeking hope, beauty, and meaning in an uncertain world. Many memoirs recount the author's experiences of growing up and struggling with demons; Werner's shows how old demons sometimes return on the heels of something as beautiful as children. Werner's memoir is about growing up, getting older, looking back, and wondering what lies ahead--a process that becomes all the more complicated and intense when parenting is involved. Moving backward and forward between past, present, and future, Gravity Hill does not delineate time so much as collapse it. Werner narrates his struggle growing up in suburban Utah as anon-Mormon and what it took for him, his siblings, and his friends to feel like they belonged. Bonding in separation, they indulged in each other, in natural and urban landscapes, and sometimes in the destructive behaviors that are the native resort of outsidersincluding promiscuous and occasionally violent sexual behavior--and for some, paths to death and suicide. Gravity Hill is the story of the author's descent into and eventual emergence from his dysfunction and into a newfound life. Infused with humor, honesty, and reflection, this literary memoir will resonate with readers young and old.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2013

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):The University of Utah Press
Place of Publication:Salt Lake City
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2013

The Physical Object

Description:xiii, 178 pages ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781607812425, 1607812428, 9781607812432, 1607812436
oclc:ocn812531050
LC Classification:F834.S253
Dewey Decimal:979.2/258033

Part I. Trillium -- Part II. Heat Monster -- Part III. Canine Tableaux -- Part IV. Earthshine.

Subjects

Adolescents -- Biographies. -- Utah Biographies History LDS literature Manners and customs Marginality, Social Marginality, Social -- History -- 20th … Mental health Mormons Mormons -- Histoire -- 20e siècle. -- U… Mormons -- History -- 20th century. -- … Salt Lake City (Utah) -- Biography Salt Lake City (Utah) -- Social conditi… Salt Lake City (Utah) -- Social life an… Social conditions Subculture Subculture -- Histoire -- 20e siècle. -… Subculture -- History -- 20th century. … Suburban life Suburban life -- History -- 20th centur…