{"product_id":"lifes-work-a-memoir-paperback","title":"Life's Work: A Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Milch\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe creator of \u003ci\u003eDeadwood \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eNYPD Blue\u003c\/i\u003e reflects on his tumultuous life, driven by a nearly insatiable creative energy and a matching penchant for self-destruction\u003ci\u003e. Life's Work\u003c\/i\u003e is a profound memoir from a brilliant mind taking stock as Alzheimer's loosens his hold on his own past.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This is David Milch's farewell, and it will rock you.\"--Susan Orlean, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Orchid Thief\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR, \u003ci\u003eUSA Today, Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I'm on a boat sailing to some island where I don't know anybody. A boat someone is operating and we aren't in touch.\" So begins David Milch's urgent accounting of his increasingly strange present and often painful past. From the start, Milch's life seems destined to echo that of his father, a successful if drug-addicted surgeon. Almost every achievement is accompanied by an act of self-immolation, but the deepest sadnesses also contain moments of grace. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBetting on racehorses and stealing booze at eight years old, mentored by Robert Penn Warren and excoriated by Richard Yates at twenty-one, Milch never did anything by half. He got into Yale Law School only to be expelled for shooting out streetlights with a shotgun. He paused his studies at the Iowa Writers' Workshop to manufacture acid in Cuernavaca. He created and wrote some of the most lauded television series of all time, made a family, and pursued sobriety, then lost his fortune betting horses just as his father had taught him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLike Milch's best screenwriting, \u003ci\u003eLife's Work\u003c\/i\u003e explores how chance encounters, self-deception, and luck shape the people we become, and wrestles with what it means to have felt and caused pain, even and especially with those we love, and how you keep living. It is both a master class on Milch's unique creative process, and a distinctive, revelatory memoir from one of the great American writers, in what may be his final dispatch to us all.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Milch\u003c\/b\u003e graduated summa cum laude from Yale University, where he won the Tinker Prize. He earned a MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. He worked as a writing teacher and lecturer in English literature at Yale. During his teaching career, he assisted Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks in the writing of several college textbooks on literature. His poetry and fiction have been published in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSouthern Review\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1982, Milch wrote his first television script for \u003ci\u003eHill Street Blues.\u003c\/i\u003e Among other credits, Milch created and wrote the shows \u003ci\u003eNYPD Blue, John from Cincinnati, Luck, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDeadwood\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 7.4 x 5.43 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 12, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42695980286015,"sku":"9780525510765","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/cfa74d06697e39fc577835dce1a41ea9.webp?v=1765005774","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/lifes-work-a-memoir-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}