Arcade or How to Write a Novel

This is Gordon Lish working the ground he works so well, tilling the soil of memory. From childhood he recalls the elusive prizes at the penny arcade, the lonely-looking yellow flowers that lined the sidewalk to Aunt Lily's house, and the apple strudel at Laurel in the Pines. As an adult, his concerns aren't as simple.

This is a litany of Lish history — told at a frenetic pace and in a style that elucidates the connection between the experience and the description — a laundry list of disappointments, frustrations, and sorrows, all of which define the man and the writer.

• Author
• Gordon Lish

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 172

• Publisher
• Four Walls Eight Windows

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781568581156

• Release date
• 1998