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This Is How We Dance: 52 Forays Into Flash Memoir

David Diebold

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Description:"We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known." Carson McCullersWe are made of stories. It’s how we communicate and remember, how we build a sense of self; we inhabit them. In the best and worst times of our lives we reach for narrative to make sense of the world, of our experiences. There are as many stories in this collection as there are weeks in a year, and years in the author’s life at publication; here you will find every emotional season, sometimes all in the space of one page.In an interview for the Los Angeles Times, Kevin Barry said that one of the interesting things about Irish people is talk. “We talk a lot and say very little. It’s what’s going on under the surface of the talk that’s interesting.” This is How We Dance is a between the writer and the reader—those who picked up The Herald newspaper each week to read a familiar columnist talk about his episodes in fatherhood, his haphazard navigation of modern life, from which these pieces are gleaned; it’s also a dialogue between family and friends, both past and present—and at its most poignant it’s a conversation the author has with himself.Humour subverts expectations; it’s a way of seducing the reader. Funny is the low hanging adjective to describe this book, because it is—these pieces give you a wry smile or a bark out loud laugh, as Diebold is expert with the wisecrack, the one-liner and the deadpan observation. He has an easy style; it’s like sitting in the bar with an old friend as he leans forward to tell you something about last summer, or what happened to him on the way to the station. But there is also depth and gravity, albeit by the side gate. Diebold invites you in with a joke, but often leaves you with his hallmark change of key, taking you from major to minor in the length of a thousand words. Happiness is here in abundance, in the small and large the glitter on a card made by a child; the smell of homecooked burgers; the freedom of the road. There are those relatable moments in watching your child grow up, and letting them go; falling in love; finding a friend. But there are also things unique to the author, a family history so unusual and complex it is worthy of a documentary—yet you never feel on the outside. The stories that explore the stranger aspects of his background feel as natural and close as those set in the supermarket on the main street of Skerries, Dublin, where Diebold lives. This is his talent—making the particular universal, and the universal particular. There is looking up, and looking forward in this volume—on father-son mountain climbs as a child, into cold January skies, the advice and admonitions of his father keen in the writer’s mind decades on, in Fellow Misanthropists. We stay on the mountain for a more ridiculous climb years later, as Diebold and his belly struggle to keep up with his long-time friends in the hilarious Climb Any Mountain. There is looking down, and looking back too, as friends arrive, and friends disappear. Sometimes it’s via a chance meeting—maybe a couple of beers with a successful novelist, or a fleeting encounter with a musician, people and times now vanished; elsewhere it’s by paying homage to those treasured people who have left the show. There are castles in the air, as ambitions and jobs change as quickly as cities and circumstances. There are clouds too. Diebold describes a childhood honeyed with the nostalgia of quarry roaming and afternoon television in Kung Fu Kid, but also hints at a psychological burden that would take a novel to examine. Yet even the most difficult subjects are written with a light touch. It’s a fairground of memories, from rollercoasters to games of chance, to the slow circle of a Ferris wheel. There is no misery to this memoir, despite it tackling grief—the thing with feathers—that settles in the author in the middle of his life, considered with subtlety in Nick Cave Nails It. Loss, like love, is given the same cadence, with crescendos and diminuendos, as is family life in all its mess and family, despite Diebold’s comical lamentations, is the one constant in the flux and flow of everything else. The author is often characteristically flippant when dealing with painful questions, or sensitive periods in his life; at times you hanker for more of the straight man, for the writer who has left the mask of columnist and raconteur down for a while. Possibly the volume is at its most powerful on those rare occasions we glimpse the author’s face when the audience has left the room—evident in the concluding story, The Secrets We Squander.Ultimately, Diebold wants to leave us laughing, not to give himself away—or at least not too much. Because in the end what is it, this beautiful, chaotic, epic of a life, if not, in the words of the incomparable Bill Hicks, just a a...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with This Is How We Dance: 52 Forays Into Flash Memoir. 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Description: "We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known." Carson McCullersWe are made of stories. It’s how we communicate and remember, how we build a sense of self; we inhabit them. In the best and worst times of our lives we reach for narrative to make sense of the world, of our experiences. There are as many stories in this collection as there are weeks in a year, and years in the author’s life at publication; here you will find every emotional season, sometimes all in the space of one page.In an interview for the Los Angeles Times, Kevin Barry said that one of the interesting things about Irish people is talk. “We talk a lot and say very little. It’s what’s going on under the surface of the talk that’s interesting.” This is How We Dance is a between the writer and the reader—those who picked up The Herald newspaper each week to read a familiar columnist talk about his episodes in fatherhood, his haphazard navigation of modern life, from which these pieces are gleaned; it’s also a dialogue between family and friends, both past and present—and at its most poignant it’s a conversation the author has with himself.Humour subverts expectations; it’s a way of seducing the reader. Funny is the low hanging adjective to describe this book, because it is—these pieces give you a wry smile or a bark out loud laugh, as Diebold is expert with the wisecrack, the one-liner and the deadpan observation. He has an easy style; it’s like sitting in the bar with an old friend as he leans forward to tell you something about last summer, or what happened to him on the way to the station. But there is also depth and gravity, albeit by the side gate. Diebold invites you in with a joke, but often leaves you with his hallmark change of key, taking you from major to minor in the length of a thousand words. Happiness is here in abundance, in the small and large the glitter on a card made by a child; the smell of homecooked burgers; the freedom of the road. There are those relatable moments in watching your child grow up, and letting them go; falling in love; finding a friend. But there are also things unique to the author, a family history so unusual and complex it is worthy of a documentary—yet you never feel on the outside. The stories that explore the stranger aspects of his background feel as natural and close as those set in the supermarket on the main street of Skerries, Dublin, where Diebold lives. This is his talent—making the particular universal, and the universal particular. There is looking up, and looking forward in this volume—on father-son mountain climbs as a child, into cold January skies, the advice and admonitions of his father keen in the writer’s mind decades on, in Fellow Misanthropists. We stay on the mountain for a more ridiculous climb years later, as Diebold and his belly struggle to keep up with his long-time friends in the hilarious Climb Any Mountain. There is looking down, and looking back too, as friends arrive, and friends disappear. Sometimes it’s via a chance meeting—maybe a couple of beers with a successful novelist, or a fleeting encounter with a musician, people and times now vanished; elsewhere it’s by paying homage to those treasured people who have left the show. There are castles in the air, as ambitions and jobs change as quickly as cities and circumstances. There are clouds too. Diebold describes a childhood honeyed with the nostalgia of quarry roaming and afternoon television in Kung Fu Kid, but also hints at a psychological burden that would take a novel to examine. Yet even the most difficult subjects are written with a light touch. It’s a fairground of memories, from rollercoasters to games of chance, to the slow circle of a Ferris wheel. There is no misery to this memoir, despite it tackling grief—the thing with feathers—that settles in the author in the middle of his life, considered with subtlety in Nick Cave Nails It. Loss, like love, is given the same cadence, with crescendos and diminuendos, as is family life in all its mess and family, despite Diebold’s comical lamentations, is the one constant in the flux and flow of everything else. The author is often characteristically flippant when dealing with painful questions, or sensitive periods in his life; at times you hanker for more of the straight man, for the writer who has left the mask of columnist and raconteur down for a while. Possibly the volume is at its most powerful on those rare occasions we glimpse the author’s face when the audience has left the room—evident in the concluding story, The Secrets We Squander.Ultimately, Diebold wants to leave us laughing, not to give himself away—or at least not too much. Because in the end what is it, this beautiful, chaotic, epic of a life, if not, in the words of the incomparable Bill Hicks, just a a...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with This Is How We Dance: 52 Forays Into Flash Memoir. 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