When an exbasketball star and poetry aficionado discovers lost love letters from Emily Dickinson to an unknown Irish lover, she must confront academic conformism and risk embarrassing exposure in order to defend larger truths about American culture in a nation still divided by war.Meet Holly Winegarten, a campus celebrity and painfully selfconscious young woman trying to come to terms with being six feet, nine inches tall. Sidelined by injury from a basketball career, she develops an affinity for literature and accidentally discovers secret correspondence by an American literary icon famed for her selfeffacement. Holly learns that Emily Dickinsons clandestine lover was an immigrant Irish workingman who served as a wartime substitute for her cherished brother, Austin. Hollys discoveries make her the envy of academic careerists, who arent afraid to play dirty.Also on Hollys mind the future of her own misfit brother, Honus, her relationship with her father and coach, Art, and her unexpected friendship with a reviled professor. Holly longs for intimacy in a world where appearances rule, and she must find a way to push back against a university compromised by intellectual fashions and insulated from Americans who serve in todays foreign wars.Humorous and poignant,Dont Look at Meis an unblinking portrait of how literature still excites and disrupts our lives.

Binding: Paperback;284 pages; Publisher: Sagging Meniscus Press; Classification: N/A; Weight: 496.03 g; Dimensions: N/A

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