Jami Attenberg
I Came All This Way to Meet You Hardback Book
Named a Best Book of the Year by Time New Yorker Sunday Times (UK)From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling memoir about unlocking and embracing her creativityand how it saved her life. In this brilliant, fierce, and funny memoir of transformation, Jami Attenbergdescribed as a "master of modern fiction" (Entertainment Weekly) and the "poet laureate of difficult families" (Kirkus Reviews)reveals the defining moments that pushed her to create a life, and voice, she could claim for herself. What does it take to devote oneself to art? What does it mean to own ones ideas? What does the world look like for a woman moving solo through it?As the daughter of a traveling salesman in the Midwest, Attenberg was drawn to a life on the road. Frustrated by quotidian jobs and hungry for inspiration and fresh experiences, her wanderlust led her across the country and eventually on travels around the globe. Through it all she grapples with questions of mortality, otherworldliness, and what we leave behind.It is during these adventures that she begins to reflect on the experiences of her youththe trauma, the challenges, the risks she has taken. Driving across America on selffunded book tours, sometimes crashing on couches when she was broke, she keeps writing in researching articles for magazines, jotting down ideas for novels, and refining her craft, she grows as an artist and increasingly learns to trust her gut and, ultimately, herself.Exploring themes of...
Binding: Hardback; pages; Publisher: HarperCollins; Classification: BGA; Weight: 546 g; Dimensions: 160 x 236 x 29
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Named a Best Book of the Year by Time New Yorker Sunday Times (UK)From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling memoir about unlocking and embracing her creativityand how it saved her life. In this brilliant, fierce, and funny memoir of transformation, Jami Attenbergdescribed as a "master of modern fiction" (Entertainment Weekly) and the "poet laureate of difficult families" (Kirkus Reviews)reveals the defining moments that pushed her to create a life, and voice, she could claim for herself. What does it take to devote oneself to art? What does it mean to own ones ideas? What does the world look like for a woman moving solo through it?As the daughter of a traveling salesman in the Midwest, Attenberg was drawn to a life on the road. Frustrated by quotidian jobs and hungry for inspiration and fresh experiences, her wanderlust led her across the country and eventually on travels around the globe. Through it all she grapples with questions of mortality, otherworldliness, and what we leave behind.It is during these adventures that she begins to reflect on the experiences of her youththe trauma, the challenges, the risks she has taken. Driving across America on selffunded book tours, sometimes crashing on couches when she was broke, she keeps writing in researching articles for magazines, jotting down ideas for novels, and refining her craft, she grows as an artist and increasingly learns to trust her gut and, ultimately, herself.Exploring themes of...
Binding: Hardback; pages; Publisher: HarperCollins; Classification: BGA; Weight: 546 g; Dimensions: 160 x 236 x 29
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Items of footwear and/or clothing must be unworn and unwashed with the original labels attached. Also, footwear must be tried on indoors. Items of homeware including bedlinen, mattresses, and toppers, and pillows must be unused and in their original unopened packaging. This does not affect your statutory rights.
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