Ten Past Noon (eBook)

Focus and Fate at Forty

Tucker Lieberman (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
480 Seiten
Glyph Torrent (Verlag)
978-1-7329060-5-1 (ISBN)

Infos

In the Roaring Twenties, Edward Cumming might have become a railroad businessman, but he was more interested in literature. During the Depression, he tried to write a book about historical castrations. At thirty-nine, he died by suicide.What went wrong for him? A lack of focus? A problem of fate? The number forty? Or was his book haunted?In this train ride of an American biography, Tucker Lieberman tells the story of the would-be scholar of eunuchs. It is an essay about war, racism, gender, time, mortality, free will, money, argument, information architecture, and why a writer might not finish a book.A hypno-saga...experimental, tender, angry, freighted.

Inhalt

Now Departing From Track 1

• Now Departing From Track 1

Tracks 1-28: Origin Story

• Was the Superintendent Deceived?


• The Turn of the Century


• The Trains of Ned’s Childhood


• Industry, Thoroughness, Purpose


• Entering the Great Depression

Tracks 29-36: The Cart

• By Subject Not Alphabetical


• Damn the Surgeons!


• Thought Processes


• Hypothetics and Hoarding


• Correspondence


• Where to Begin? Will It Ever End?


• What We Can Stop Today


• Nothing? Or Almost Anything?


• ‘Little Infinite Poem’


• Tell Me, How’s It Going?


• Every Effect Is Itself a Cause


• Testosterone

Tracks 37-39: No Book

• Unanswered Questions


• Impulse, Obsession, Doubt


• Monster Manuscripts


• Molossus


• End of a Decade


• Suicide Note

Now Arriving on Track 40

• Now Arriving on Track 40

Caboose

• Acknowledgments


• About The Author


• Primary Texts


• Selected Books

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.2.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Schlagworte: Biography • castration • Eunuch • Racism • Railroads • Suicide • Transgender
• ISBN-10: 1-7329060-5-X / 173290605X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7329060-5-1 / 9781732906051