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addiction
Addiction and recovery
anxiety
Author_Grant Maierhofer
autobiographical fiction
Autofiction
avant-garde literature
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creative fiction
creative writing
death
depression
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Experimental fiction
Experimental prose
experimental storytelling
experimental writing
family
FC2
fiction collective 2
Fragmented narrative
grief
Inner monologue
Literary minimalism
Mental health
Nonlinear storytelling
novel
obsessive compulsive disorder
OCD
Postmodern fiction
Raw emotional realism
recovery
Self-examination
sexuality
Shame and identity
Stream of consciousness
therapy
Trauma and memory
Urban alienation
Product details
- ISBN 9781573661942
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 137 x 213mm
- Publication Date: 12 Sep 2022
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Shame is a daring exploration of the potential and limits of autofiction, wherein certain authentic features of the author’s life are written alongside fictitious ones. Here we meet Grant Maierhofer at various points within his life then, now, and in the future as he investigates the sense of shame that haunts the course of his days. The real and unreal, fact and fiction, blur together in a Kaufmanesque sequence of overlapping narratives about of who we really are, how we cope with regret, and the repetitions of our behavior.
Through lists, fragments, recollections, and rants, the story of a son’s vexing grief for his father emerges. A sober addict trying to figure out how to navigate pleasure, diversion, and escape. A father trying to figure out marriage, children, maturity, and responsibility. A confused observer in a world constantly torn apart by media, politics, and aggression. A meditation on the nature of art, and art’s place in contemporary life.
Through lists, fragments, recollections, and rants, the story of a son’s vexing grief for his father emerges. A sober addict trying to figure out how to navigate pleasure, diversion, and escape. A father trying to figure out marriage, children, maturity, and responsibility. A confused observer in a world constantly torn apart by media, politics, and aggression. A meditation on the nature of art, and art’s place in contemporary life.
