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Compass Points: How I Lived
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Pantheon Books
Publication date February 1, 2001
Pages 293
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780375402463
ISBN-10 0375402462
Dimensions 1 by 5.75 by 9.50 in.
Availability§ Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price $25.00
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
A candid, literary memoir by the author of the critically acclaimed author of The Tugman's Passage describes his writing career, the growing blindness that transformed his life, causing an increasing dependence, isolation, and inertia, and the technology that restored his sight and the implications of that miracle in terms of his personal and professional worlds. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)
Amazon.com description: Product Description: For nearly fifty years Edward Hoagland has proven himself to be, in the words of William Kittredge, "one of our basic writers"--a writer whose novels, essays, and travel books have demonstrated a "pungency, directness, and his special gift for finding joy in the most unexpected places" (Alfred Kazin).  

In Compass Points, Hoagland looks back over his life in an attempt to discern the fundamental directions in which he is traveling, and he tells a story that embraces some of the contradictions and complexities of human experience. It reflects with elegance Hoagland's intransigent honesty, his protean ardor, and, most important, his generosity. Here, family and friends, wives and lovers, mentors and fellow writers are given their due in a life's reckoning that is shrewd in observation, marvelously crafted, rapturous in its
acceptance and appreciation. A pithy mix of family history and personal insight, Compass Points transforms one man's story into an American saga.

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Hardcover
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from Pantheon Books (February 1, 2001)
9780375402463 | details & prices | 293 pages | 5.75 × 9.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $25.00
About: The author describes the growing blindness that transformed his life, causing an increasing dependence and isolation, and the technology that restored his sight and the implications of that miracle for his personal and professional lives.
Paperback
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Reprint edition from Vintage Books (March 26, 2002)
9780375702402 | details & prices | 306 pages | 5.00 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $19.00
About: A candid, literary memoir by the author of the critically acclaimed author of The Tugman's Passage describes his writing career, the growing blindness that transformed his life, causing an increasing dependence, isolation, and inertia, and the technology that restored his sight and the implications of that miracle in terms of his personal and professional worlds.

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