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The Year of My Disappearance
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Langbeschreibung
Winner of the 2016 Prix des Libraires Winner of the 2016 Quebecor Prize for the Trois-Rivières Poetry Festival Carole David'sThe Year of My Disappearanceis a searing, surreal, darkly comic descent into a woman's psyche. From Governor General's Award winning translator, Donald Winkler, into English, comes this pitiless assault on the author's own torments and pretenses. Present here are figures lodged in her memory: lovers, strangers, her mother, and Bosch-like apparitions out of her dreams and imaginings. Through it all, a fierce combat is being waged between immolation and survival. As David has written, "I gave free range to the lives that dwelt within me."It's down this road the blind spot sings.
Hauptbeschreibung
Winner of the 2016 Prix des LibrairesWinner of the 2016 Quebecor Prize for the Trois-RiviEres Poetry FestivalCarole David's The Year of My Disappearance is a searing, surreal, darkly comic descent into a woman's psyche. From Governor General's Award winning translator, Donald Winkler, into English, comes this pitiless assault on the author's own torments and pretenses. Present here are figures lodged in her memory: lovers, strangers, her mother, and Bosch-like apparitions out of her dreams and imaginings. Through it all, a fierce combat is being waged between immolation and survival. As David has written, "e;I gave free range to the lives that dwelt within me."e; It's down this road the blind spot sings.
Autor*in:
Carole David
Art:
Digitalprodukt/E-Book (Download)
Sprache :
Englisch
Zeit:
72 S., 0.70 MB
ISBN-13:
9781771664165
Verlag:
BOOKTHUG
Erscheinungsdatum:
15.02.2018
Erscheinungsjahr:
2018
Ausgabe:
1/2018