On Purpose

On Purpose examines the often brutal arena of human relations. Informed by both wit and a melancholic undercurrent, the book thoughtfully provokes concepts of happiness and sadness, of warring and reparation. The volume concludes with an affecting sequence about a marriage, inspired by that most influential of military treatises, The Art of War.

Author: Nick Laird
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 07/05/2010
Pages: 76
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9780393338263

About the Author
Laird, Nick: - Nick Laird's work has garnered multiple awards including the Eric Gregory Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, and a Guggenheim fellowship. Feel Free was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Laird is a writer-in-residence at NYU and Chair of Creative Writing (poetry) at Queen's University, Belfast. He lives in New York and Ireland.