Unfinished Woman
Autor Robyn Davidsonen Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 dec 2023
A spellbinding memoir exploring time and memory, home and belonging, from the internationally bestselling author of Tracks, "an unforgettably powerful book" (Cheryl Strayed).
In 1977, while she was in her twenties, Robyn Davidson set off with a dog and four camels to cross 1,700 miles of Australian desert to the sea.
A life of almost constant travelling followed-from the Outback to Sydney's underworld; from sixties street life, to the London literary scene; from migrating with nomads in India and Tibet, to marrying an Indian prince. The only territory she avoided was the past. In Unfinished Woman, she ventures into that unknown, unearthing an ache for a lost but barely remembered mother and an unmet desire to feel at home in her freedom.
Adventurous but guarded, fearless yet broken, Davidson asks: how can we live with pain and uncertainty, to find beauty in the strangeness of being? Unfinished Woman is a stunning literary achievement, inviting readers in as a world-famous wandering spirit is, for the first time, laid truly bare.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781620401620
ISBN-10: 1620401622
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 147 x 223 x 2 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury USA
ISBN-10: 1620401622
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 147 x 223 x 2 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury USA
Caracteristici
Beautifully written, Unfinished Woman is a timely meditation on motherhood, womanhood, sacrifice and freedom sure to captivate women of all generations: set to become a genre-defining classic of memoir in the vein of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller (TCM: 160,000), On Chapel Sands by Laura Cumming (TCM: 66,000) and Deborah Levy's Living Autobiography series (TCM: 60,000)
Notă biografică
Robyn Davidson was born on a cattle property in Queensland. She moved to Sydney in the late Sixties, then returned to study in Brisbane before going to Alice Springs to prepare for her journey across the Australian desert. Davidson's first book Tracks, her account of this crossing, was an international sensation, and was adapted for a film starring Mia Wasikowska and Adam Driver. She has travelled extensively, and has lived in London, New York and India. In the early 1990s Davidson migrated with and wrote about nomads in north-west India. She is now based in regional Victoria, but spends some time each year in India.
Recenzii
An astonishing, wonderful memoir of an extraordinary life
In a memoir that's as evocative and restless as its author - flitting from Doris Lessing's abode in London to the Indian home of her Rajasthani prince "companion" - Davidson interrogates what family, freedom and home mean when you never truly belong anywhere
A triumph
An extraordinary memoir . An enthralling, miraculous story, clear as the brilliant constellations of the night sky
The zigzagging life of an adventurer ... A fine and observant descriptive writer
Lyrical and beautifully textured ... The book's multi-layered structure allows disparate recollections to interrupt the chronological narrative in evocative ways, and its title suggests an unfinished symphony, with music and the act of writing serving as central motifs ... The strength of Unfinished Woman is its honesty about Robyn Davidson's difficult emotional and creative journey, and it is propelled by her unsparing self-awareness and willingness to confront her past'
In her twenties, Davidson trekked 1,700 miles through the Australian wilderness. This led to the bestselling book Tracks and global fame. Half a century later she has written about what motivated her - including the tragic early death of her mother
Davidson captures an exciting and complex life with insight and humour ... Davidson's life has been full of adventures, encounters, love affairs and losses. She pulls them apart, examines them and lays them before us so as to question what sort of life we are living
This is a beautiful story about finding a home wherever you go and understanding your own narrative
Immersive and profound, Robyn Davidson's Unfinished Woman is a portal to understanding a daughter's grief. "We take our mothers into us; that is where they live," she writes. So much of her mother's life may remain unknown, but through memoir, Davidson completes what she considers an impossible task: crafting a moving portrait of her mother. This book will stay with me
Stunning. Robyn Davidson lives and writes with an explorer's courage, but this book is more than an adventure story. Unfinished Woman is an unfiltered glimpse into the fierce pursuit of freedom and connection, woven with a mother-daughter bond untouchable by time
A powerful memoir, and an unforgettable read
Searching, captivating and miraculously honest. Davidson has a voice we want to travel with, and to know
Praise for Tracks: This will rank among the best of the books of exploration and travel and, like them, is a record of self-discovery and self-proving
An unforgettably powerful book, beautiful, thrilling and ferociously brave ... Davidson's timeless story of her astonishing journey gripped me from the first page to the last
It gets to the heart of landscape and solitude and becomes a venture to the interior of more than one dimension as its author approaches the hinterland of her own thorny psyche
An absorbing record of human endeavour and courage, a vivid picture of an extraordinary country by a perceptive and sensitive observer, and the story of an inner journey, of "shedding burdens"
As eccentric, undisciplined, flashily brilliant and pig-headed as its author ... Ms Davidson is a born writer, her book deeply moving
Vivid and vivacious ... Davidson is as natural a writer as she is an adventurer
Davidson's has been an operatic life, punctuated by dramas of love and death, populated with colourful characters and backed by exotic scenery ... I loved reading this book.
Davidson pieces together and attempts to understand who her mother was as a person and, by extension, who she is. This is a beautiful story about finding a home wherever you go and understanding your own narrative
In a memoir that's as evocative and restless as its author - flitting from Doris Lessing's abode in London to the Indian home of her Rajasthani prince "companion" - Davidson interrogates what family, freedom and home mean when you never truly belong anywhere
A triumph
An extraordinary memoir . An enthralling, miraculous story, clear as the brilliant constellations of the night sky
The zigzagging life of an adventurer ... A fine and observant descriptive writer
Lyrical and beautifully textured ... The book's multi-layered structure allows disparate recollections to interrupt the chronological narrative in evocative ways, and its title suggests an unfinished symphony, with music and the act of writing serving as central motifs ... The strength of Unfinished Woman is its honesty about Robyn Davidson's difficult emotional and creative journey, and it is propelled by her unsparing self-awareness and willingness to confront her past'
In her twenties, Davidson trekked 1,700 miles through the Australian wilderness. This led to the bestselling book Tracks and global fame. Half a century later she has written about what motivated her - including the tragic early death of her mother
Davidson captures an exciting and complex life with insight and humour ... Davidson's life has been full of adventures, encounters, love affairs and losses. She pulls them apart, examines them and lays them before us so as to question what sort of life we are living
This is a beautiful story about finding a home wherever you go and understanding your own narrative
Immersive and profound, Robyn Davidson's Unfinished Woman is a portal to understanding a daughter's grief. "We take our mothers into us; that is where they live," she writes. So much of her mother's life may remain unknown, but through memoir, Davidson completes what she considers an impossible task: crafting a moving portrait of her mother. This book will stay with me
Stunning. Robyn Davidson lives and writes with an explorer's courage, but this book is more than an adventure story. Unfinished Woman is an unfiltered glimpse into the fierce pursuit of freedom and connection, woven with a mother-daughter bond untouchable by time
A powerful memoir, and an unforgettable read
Searching, captivating and miraculously honest. Davidson has a voice we want to travel with, and to know
Praise for Tracks: This will rank among the best of the books of exploration and travel and, like them, is a record of self-discovery and self-proving
An unforgettably powerful book, beautiful, thrilling and ferociously brave ... Davidson's timeless story of her astonishing journey gripped me from the first page to the last
It gets to the heart of landscape and solitude and becomes a venture to the interior of more than one dimension as its author approaches the hinterland of her own thorny psyche
An absorbing record of human endeavour and courage, a vivid picture of an extraordinary country by a perceptive and sensitive observer, and the story of an inner journey, of "shedding burdens"
As eccentric, undisciplined, flashily brilliant and pig-headed as its author ... Ms Davidson is a born writer, her book deeply moving
Vivid and vivacious ... Davidson is as natural a writer as she is an adventurer
Davidson's has been an operatic life, punctuated by dramas of love and death, populated with colourful characters and backed by exotic scenery ... I loved reading this book.
Davidson pieces together and attempts to understand who her mother was as a person and, by extension, who she is. This is a beautiful story about finding a home wherever you go and understanding your own narrative