The Last Happy Occasion
Alan Shapiro
A coming-of-age story of an American Jew and aspiring writer in the '60s and '70s. In this memoir in six movements, Alan Shapiro recalls how poetry helped him make sense of his own and other people's lives.
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- ISBN-13
- 9780226750361
- Genre
- Topics
- Coming-of-ageJewish American identityPoetry and writing
Awards
- National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyShortlistedMajor(1996)
Other awarded books from Alan Shapiro
Alan Shapiro has no other awarded or shortlisted books yet.
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