Just Looking: And Other Essays

by Helen McLean

Just Looking might have been titled "just living." McLean describes her lifelong task of trying to learn Italian; she speaks of "unmet friends," writers who have influenced her life and art. Failing faculties are examined metaphorically: hip-replacement surgery is likened to shoring up the beams of an old house. We are taken step by step through the author's cataract surgery and her overwhelming joy at seeing colours truly again. She urges...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0980887925
• ISBN13: 9780980887921
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Seraphim Editions
• Length: 119 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.7" x 8.5"