The Sunday Book

by Michael Trussler

Overview

In The Sunday Book, Michael Trussler uses memoir to excavate and explore a range of inner lives, all lived at different speeds. With essays touching on the meaning of the Holocaust in the twenty-first century to confronting the complexities of being a parent in the Anthropocene, Trussler’s interconnected essays are united by his lived experience with a rare learning disability. The Sunday Book freshly engages with fundamental existential problems such as free will and contingency, all the while providing an original take on our contemporary moment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781990293160
Publisher:	Palimpsest Press
Publication date:	05/15/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	216
File size:	12 MB
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About the Author

Michael Trussler writes poetry, short stories, and creative non-fiction. He is also a photographer. He’s published various books, most recently Rare Sighting of a Guillotine on the Savannah (Mansfield Press, 2021). His prize-winning work has appeared in domestic and international anthologies and journals. His collection of short stories, Encounters, won the Book of the Year and City of Regina Awards from the Saskatchewan Book Awards in 2006. Accidental Animals, a poetry collection, was short-listed for the same awards in 2007. He teaches English at the University of Regina.

Table of Contents

Bodhisattva on a Bicycle 11

When a Glacier Breathes, Johannes, It Releases Ravens 29

The Sunday Book 49

You Don't Have to Do This 57

Sunday, October 7, 1990

Bruegel's Hunters in the Snow ↔ Konzentrationslager Mauthausen 63

Sunday, July 20, 2014

Interlude: the various species of time 83

The Flâneur, Amsterdam, and a Hawk 91

Sunday, July 27, 2014

Cell 23 101

Sunday, October 16, 2016

Interlude: a slow-paced, though gilded, hysteria 107

The Guard in the Museum 111

Sunday, October 23, 2016

Basketball, John Lennon, and a Helicopter 123

Sunday, January 26, 2020

Contours

Contours: In Search of Etty Hillesum 133

Home Is What Travels Through Us

Zen and a Dinosaur 151

May to June 2020 … A COVID Miscellany 159

To the person I will have been, yesterday 171

A Day Cut in Two 179

Notes 206

Bibliography 208

Editorial Reviews

“The Sunday Book is a beautifully written, acutely observed memoir that gives us an unflinching glimpse into one mans’s journey through middle-age, depression, anxiety and modern life. A poignant examination of aging and loss that encompasses time, metaphysics and art.”—Don Gillmor and Alexandra Shimo, 2020 Saskatchewan Writers Guild competition for nonfiction citation

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