Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life
Autor Yiyun Lien Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 feb 2018
A luminous memoir about reading, writing and how to find meaning in a life
Written over two years while the author battled depression,Dear Friendis a painful and yet richly affirming examination of what makes life worth living. Interweaving personal memoir with a wide-ranging celebration of writers and books, this is a journey of recovery through literature.
From William Trevor and Katherine Mansfield to Kierkegaard and Larkin, Yiyun Li traces the themes of time and transformation, presence and absence. Drawing on personal experiences from her difficult childhood in China, she constructs a beautiful, interior exploration of selfhood and what is required to choose life.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241978665
ISBN-10: 0241978661
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241978661
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
Yiyun
Liis
the
author
of
three
novels,Where
Reasons
End,The
VagrantsandKinder
Than
Solitude,
and
two
short-story
collections,A
Thousand
Years
of
Good
PrayersandGold
Boy,
Emerald
Girl,as
well
as
the
memoir,Dear
Friend,
From
My
Life
I
Write
to
You
in
Your
Life.
She
has
won
literary
awards
including
the
Frank
O'Connor
International
Short
Story
Award
and
theGuardianFirst
Book
Award,
and
was
listed
amongGranta's
21
Best
of
Young
American
Novelists
2007.
Her
stories
have
been
published
in
theNew
Yorker,Paris
Reviewand
elsewhere.
She
is
a
MacArthur
Fellow,
a
recipient
of
a
Windham-Campbell
Prize
and
a
Professor
of
Creative
Writing
at
Princeton
University.
Recenzii
Reveals,
gloriously,
the
companionship,
intimacy,
and
insight
that
can
come
from
obsession
with
the
written
word
Literature, the clash of public and private, human nature itself-these subjects and more are explored with remarkable subtlety and rare, limpid mental beauty. A must-read for anyone trying to stay sane in a world that might be perceived as insane
Weaving sharp literary criticism with a perceptive narrative about her life as an immigrant in America
An intimate memoir of darkest despair... A potent journey of depression that effectively testifies to unbearable pain and the consolation of literature
Quietly forceful, unrelenting... She unfolds an argument with the self, suspicious of the very concept , but not, ultimately, refuse its possibilities
Novelistic scenes, limpid prose, subtly moving emotion... Personal reminiscences [and] literary meditations... Li explores ruptures in time, the difficulty of writing autobiographical fiction, the pleasures of melodrama
Publisher's description. A luminous memoir from the award-winning author ofThe VagrantsandA Thousand Years of Good Prayers. Startlingly original and shining with quiet wisdom, this is the record of a life lived with books and a richly affirming examination of what makes any life worth living.
Beautiful and profound... This book is a terribly beautiful gift to the reader
A remarkable account of literary life [from] an important and gifted writer... Her new book is a meditation on the fact that literature itself lives and gives life
Extraordinary. A storyteller of the first order
Exceptional... one of our major novelists
Yiyun has the talent, the vision and the respect for life's insoluble mysteries... [she] is the real deal
A work of arresting revelations...A writer of meticulous reasoning, probing sensitivity, candor, and poise, Li parses mental states with psychological and philosophical precision in a beautifully measured and structured style born of both her scientific and literary backgrounds.
Li celebrates the authors who make reading a joyous pursuit, and the details that've made her own life worth living.
Literature, the clash of public and private, human nature itself-these subjects and more are explored with remarkable subtlety and rare, limpid mental beauty. A must-read for anyone trying to stay sane in a world that might be perceived as insane
Weaving sharp literary criticism with a perceptive narrative about her life as an immigrant in America
An intimate memoir of darkest despair... A potent journey of depression that effectively testifies to unbearable pain and the consolation of literature
Quietly forceful, unrelenting... She unfolds an argument with the self, suspicious of the very concept , but not, ultimately, refuse its possibilities
Novelistic scenes, limpid prose, subtly moving emotion... Personal reminiscences [and] literary meditations... Li explores ruptures in time, the difficulty of writing autobiographical fiction, the pleasures of melodrama
Publisher's description. A luminous memoir from the award-winning author ofThe VagrantsandA Thousand Years of Good Prayers. Startlingly original and shining with quiet wisdom, this is the record of a life lived with books and a richly affirming examination of what makes any life worth living.
Beautiful and profound... This book is a terribly beautiful gift to the reader
A remarkable account of literary life [from] an important and gifted writer... Her new book is a meditation on the fact that literature itself lives and gives life
Extraordinary. A storyteller of the first order
Exceptional... one of our major novelists
Yiyun has the talent, the vision and the respect for life's insoluble mysteries... [she] is the real deal
A work of arresting revelations...A writer of meticulous reasoning, probing sensitivity, candor, and poise, Li parses mental states with psychological and philosophical precision in a beautifully measured and structured style born of both her scientific and literary backgrounds.
Li celebrates the authors who make reading a joyous pursuit, and the details that've made her own life worth living.