Loss, A Love Story: Imagined Histories and Brief Encounters
Autor Sophie Ratcliffeen Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 apr 2024
Part memoir, part imagined history, this unique personal essay depicts the intimate experience of childhood bereavement, lost love affairs, and the complicated realities of motherhood and marriage. Framed by an extended train journey, author Sophie Ratcliffe turns to the novels, novelists, and heroines who have shaped her emotional and romantic landscapes. She transports us with her to survey the messiness of everyday life, all while reflecting on steam propulsion and pop songs, handbags and honeymoons, Anna Karenina and Anthony Trollope, former lovers and forgotten muses. Frank, funny, tender, and transporting, Loss, A Love Story asks why we fall in, and out, of love—and how we might understand doing so amid the ongoing upheavals and unwritten futures of the twenty-first century.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780810146822
ISBN-10: 0810146827
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 127 x 216 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Northwestern University Press
ISBN-10: 0810146827
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 127 x 216 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Northwestern University Press
Notă biografică
SOPHIE RATCLIFFE is professor of literature and creative criticism at the University of Oxford and a fellow and tutor at Lady Margaret Hall. In addition to her scholarly books, including On Sympathy, she has published commentary pieces and book reviews for the Guardian, the New Statesman, and the Times Literary Supplement, among other outlets, and has served a judge for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction and the Wellcome Book Prize. She is married and has two children.
Cuprins
Note
Departures
Hull to Ferriby
St Petersburg to Moscow
Hackney Wick Station
Ferriby to Brough
St Petersburg to Moscow
Hackney Wick Station
Battery Place to Cortlandt Street
Brough to Goole
Hackney Wick Station
West Finchley to Belsize Park
Baker Street to Moorgate Street
St Petersburg Station
Hackney Wick Station
Goole to Thorne North
Hackney Wick Station
Thorne North to Doncaster
Oxford Station
Moscow to St Petersburg
Sheffield to Birmingham New Street
Bologoye Station
Ghost Train
Finchley Central to Burnt Oak
Chalk Farm to Belsize Park
Birmingham New Street to Leamington Spa
Elephant and Castle Station
Paddington Station
Euston to Inverness
Carnforth Station
Tenway Junction
Grand Central to Utah
Leamington to Banbury
Banbury Station
Oxford Station
Sources of Quotations
Further Reading and Sources
Acknowledgments
Departures
Hull to Ferriby
St Petersburg to Moscow
Hackney Wick Station
Ferriby to Brough
St Petersburg to Moscow
Hackney Wick Station
Battery Place to Cortlandt Street
Brough to Goole
Hackney Wick Station
West Finchley to Belsize Park
Baker Street to Moorgate Street
St Petersburg Station
Hackney Wick Station
Goole to Thorne North
Hackney Wick Station
Thorne North to Doncaster
Oxford Station
Moscow to St Petersburg
Sheffield to Birmingham New Street
Bologoye Station
Ghost Train
Finchley Central to Burnt Oak
Chalk Farm to Belsize Park
Birmingham New Street to Leamington Spa
Elephant and Castle Station
Paddington Station
Euston to Inverness
Carnforth Station
Tenway Junction
Grand Central to Utah
Leamington to Banbury
Banbury Station
Oxford Station
Sources of Quotations
Further Reading and Sources
Acknowledgments
Recenzii
“With this voyage into grief, longing, eros, and art, Sophie Ratcliffe offers us an intimate, beautifully curated exhibit of history, imagination, revelation, and consolation.” —Margo Jefferson, author of Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
“A book as much about time and technology as it is about love and grief, Loss, A Love Story is a feat of personal narrative. Sophie Ratcliffe crosses genre borders and traverses boundaries, both imagined and real, reminding us with each movement that a lived life is less a framed photograph than it is a moving train, ferrying us forward in space while also pulling us back in time. This book swept me away.” —Sarah Viren, author of To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories
“Sophie Ratcliffe brings a breathtaking honesty and a cool precision to her imaginative meditation on the lessons of Anna Karenina—it is a true tour de force which is both moving and exhilarating to read.” —Rosamund Bartlett, author of Tolstoy: A Life
"Ratcliffe’s creative summaries of her readings are like the performance of a dancer following the lead of another dancer, drawing on another artist’s imaginings for inspiration. Tolstoy and Trollope, whom she seems to find particularly compelling for their interest in—not to mention extraordinary depiction of—conflicted, complex women, partner her into her own complicated experiences with absence and death. In this way, the two greatest novelists of the second half of the 19th century (my opinion) give Ratcliffe a way to reflect on the two biggest losses of her life." —Los Angeles Review of Books
“A book as much about time and technology as it is about love and grief, Loss, A Love Story is a feat of personal narrative. Sophie Ratcliffe crosses genre borders and traverses boundaries, both imagined and real, reminding us with each movement that a lived life is less a framed photograph than it is a moving train, ferrying us forward in space while also pulling us back in time. This book swept me away.” —Sarah Viren, author of To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories
“Sophie Ratcliffe brings a breathtaking honesty and a cool precision to her imaginative meditation on the lessons of Anna Karenina—it is a true tour de force which is both moving and exhilarating to read.” —Rosamund Bartlett, author of Tolstoy: A Life
"Ratcliffe’s creative summaries of her readings are like the performance of a dancer following the lead of another dancer, drawing on another artist’s imaginings for inspiration. Tolstoy and Trollope, whom she seems to find particularly compelling for their interest in—not to mention extraordinary depiction of—conflicted, complex women, partner her into her own complicated experiences with absence and death. In this way, the two greatest novelists of the second half of the 19th century (my opinion) give Ratcliffe a way to reflect on the two biggest losses of her life." —Los Angeles Review of Books
Descriere
Part memoir, part imagined history, this unique personal essay depicts the intimate experience of childhood bereavement, lost love affairs, and the complicated realities of motherhood and marriage.