Ebook {Epub PDF} The Sparkling-Eyed Boy: A Memoir of Love Grown Up by Amy Benson

"The Sparkling-Eyed Boy is so full of color and light and life." — Brad Land, author of Goat. The theme of summer love, in Amy Benson's hands, grows up: The Sparkling-Eyed Boy searches out the fault lines of adult nostalgia and desire. THE SPARKLING-EYED BOY: A Memoir of Love, Grown Up Amy Benson, Author. Mariner $12 (p) ISBN creative nonfiction" comprises some 32 entries relating to the "sparkling-eyed. The Sparkling-Eyed Boy: A Memoir of Love, Grown Up, her first book, was selected by Ted Conover as the winner of the Bakeless Prize for Creative Nonfiction. A Conversation with Amy Benson Q) This book is a fascinating rumination on a first love: in your .

SIDELIGHTS: Writer and poet Amy Benson's debut book is her memoir of first love, The Sparkling-eyed Boy: A Memoir of Love, Grown Up. As a child, Benson spent every summer at her family's cabin on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, where one particular local boy caught her attention. Amy Benson, The Sparkling-Eyed Boy: A Memoir of Love, Grown Up Jane Bernstein, Loving Rachel Mary Clearman Blew, All But the Waltz: Five Generations in the Life of a Montana Family Greg Bottoms, Angelhead: My Brother's Descent into Madness Rick Bragg, All Over but the Shoutin'; Prince of Frogtown John Burnside, A Lie About My Father. The Sparkling-Eyed Boy: A Memoir of Love, Grown Up, her first book, was selected by Ted Conover as the winner of the Bakeless Prize for Creative Nonfiction. A Conversation with Amy Benson Q) This book is a fascinating rumination on a first love: in your case, a person you call only "the sparkling-eyed boy.".

The Sparkling-Eyed Boy: A Memoir of Love, Grown Up, her first book, was selected by Ted Conover as the winner of the Bakeless Prize for Creative Nonfiction. A Conversation with Amy Benson Q) This book is a fascinating rumination on a first love: in your case, a person you call only "the sparkling-eyed boy.". The Sparkling-eyed Boy is a book which presents itself as a memoir of a love grown-up and it is, in every sense and in each sentence. The charming nuances of childhood crushes, the unforgettable tremors of longing, the gut-wrenching regrets and the maddening what-could-have-beens—it’s all here. A creative memoir reflecting on a long-ago summer love and the choices we make—“built on dreams and memories of what never happened, but could have” (USA Today). Exploring the fault lines of adult nostalgia and desire, this work of creative nonfiction—a Bakeless Prize winner—re-creates the achingly intense adolescent summer days that Amy Benson and the sparkling-eyed boy spent.