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Fleet, 6/3/2021 12:00:01 AM. paperback. New. 1.5354 in x 7.6772 in x 4.9213 in.

Fleet, 6/3/2021 12:00:01 AM. paperback. New. 1.5354 in x 7.6772 in x 4.9213 in.

Fleet, 2021-06-03. paperback. Used:Good.

Paperback. Very Good.

New. 'A profound book about the intrication of literature and life, about the modest, miraculous ways art helps us to live' Garth Greenwell 'I can think of few writers capable of such thrilling seriousness expressed with so lavish a gift' Rachel Cusk, Evening Standard In her fiction, Claire Messud 'has specialised in creating unusual female characters with ferocious, imaginative inner lives' (Ruth Franklin, New York Times Magazine). Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write opens a window on Messud's own life: a peripatetic upbringing; a warm, complicated family; and, throughout it all, her devotion to art and literature. In twenty-nine intimate, brilliant and funny essays, Messud reflects on a childhood move from her Connecticut home to Australia; the complex relationship between her modern Canadian mother and a fiercely single French Catholic aunt; and a trip to Beirut, where her pied-noir father had once lived, while he was dying. She meditates on… Read More

Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; A collection of personal and critical essays on everything from childhood to womanhood, literature to visual arts and the relationship between form and meaning in storytelling.

Fleet, 2021. Paperback. New. 336 pages. 7.72x4.96x1.02 inches.

Fleet, 2021-06-03. paperback. Used: Good.

Fleet. Paperback. New. 7x4x1.