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Bibliography
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(2008)
The Book of Calamities: Five Questions about Suffering and its Meaning
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(1997)
Seven Tattoos: A Memoir in the Flesh
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(1988)
The CASANOVA COMPLEX
Personal edit
- Legal name: Peter Trachtenberg
- Birthdate: February 4
- Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
- Nationality: US
- Gender: Male
- Official Website: http://www.petertrachtenberg.com
- Genres: Literary nonfiction, memoir, journalism, fiction
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Praise for The Book of Calamities
"This book is 'a layman's response' to unimaginable anguish, a collection of powerful stories rather than a philosophical treatise. Writing movingly about victims and survivors of natural disasters, war, genocide, domestic violence, addiction, illness, suicide and injustice, he deftly intermingles their stories with observations from religion, philosophy and literature. . . . Trachtenberg offers no easy solutions. His book, however, like Andrew Solomon's The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, succeeds because it asks the right questions, calls on the experience of articulate witnesses, and—through skillful narrative and trenchant observation—beguiles the reader into facing heartbreaking reality." -- Publishers Weekly <starred review>
"Frank and urgent . . . . Trachtenberg . . . . rais<es> complex questions about justice, malice, compassion, blame, self-pity, personal responsibility, faith, and doubt. . . . He harvest<s> wisdom from the likes of Primo Levi, Siddhartha, and Simone Weil, from Aeschylus's Oresteia and the book of Job." -- O: The Oprah Magazine
"This book is 'a layman's response' to unimaginable anguish, a collection of powerful stories rather than a philosophical treatise. Writing movingly about victims and survivors of natural disasters, war, genocide, domestic violence, addiction, illness, suicide and injustice, he deftly intermingles their stories with observations from religion, philosophy and literature. . . . Trachtenberg offers no easy solutions. His book, however, like Andrew Solomon's The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, succeeds because it asks the right questions, calls on the experience of articulate witnesses, and—through skillful narrative and trenchant observation—beguiles the reader into facing heartbreaking reality." -- Publishers Weekly <starred review>
"Frank and urgent . . . . Trachtenberg . . . . rais<es> complex questions about justice, malice, compassion, blame, self-pity, personal responsibility, faith, and doubt. . . . He harvest<s> wisdom from the likes of Primo Levi, Siddhartha, and Simone Weil, from Aeschylus's Oresteia and the book of Job." -- O: The Oprah Magazine
