A Second Life: A Collected Nonfiction | 
| Author: Dan Gerber
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Category: Book
List Price: $26.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 490849
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 255
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.3 x 1
ISBN: 0870135899
Dewey Decimal Number: 814.54
EAN: 9780870135897
ASIN: 0870135899
Publication Date: October 2001
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Condition: **NEW** Very slight edge wear to covers. O/w book is in excellent condition, binding tight, pages crisp & clean. No remainder marks. Shipped w/delivery confirmation. In the book business since 1979....
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Product Description
This book brings together the best of Dan Gerber's previously published essays and magazine stories, many of which have appeared in magazines such as Outside, Playboy, Sports Afield, and Sports Illustrated, with several new pieces. Gerber lends his experience as a professional racing driver, journalist, sailor, and fisherman with a poet's eye and a novelist's gift for narrative, believing, as he states in his introduction, that our truest lives must be imagined. New essays in this collection include a meditative journal on the Arctic and an in-depth interview in which Gerber discusses the relationship of his artistic life with that as an explorer of the natural world. Also included are a gripping account of his return to racing thirty-three years after his career-ending crash, a story about saving his own life in the African desert by introducing a clan of Rendili warriors to ice, a chronicle of his pursuit of the most elusive fish in the world, and the story of a clandestine sailing trip to Cuba. His classic and highly praised book on the Indianapolis 500, the 'World's Fastest Carnival Ride', long out of print, is included here in its entirety. Blending Thoreau's dictum that "a writer is a traveller who stays at home, with Wallace Stevens's that "it is the worst of all things not to live in a physical world," Dan Gerber's focus is the inward experience of the outer world.
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 A fascinating wealth of lore and insight April 10, 2002
A Second Life: A Collected Nonfiction by award winning writer and poet Dan Gerber is an extensive selection of the best of his previously published essays and magazine stories, which were individually published in such periodical titles as Outside, Playboy, Sports Afield, and Sports Illustrated. Several brand new pieces never before published crown this fascinating wealth of lore and insight, filled with personal experiences ranging from Gerber's days as a professional racing driver to his work as a journalist, sailor, and fisherman. A broad range of human experience fills this amazing compilation. A Second Life is engaging, informative, compelling reading from first page to last!
 Two times too much February 2, 2002
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Jim Harrison, in a promo blurb, says that the introduction alone is worth the price of the book. Close but not quite right. The introduction is the best part of the book. That and the picture on the book cover. This book is a collection of previously published essays and magazine stories. Two times too much for most of them. A mundane, wordy chronicle of action sports and poetry by a dilettante who is forever quoting his poet soul brother, rainer maria rilke, another dabbler who perfected the art of guesting and frivolous flitting about under the guise of meaningful experience. This book has nothing new to say. Second hand and second rate.
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