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- Book Title
- Splinters : Another Kind of Love Story
- Publication Name
- Splinters
- Title
- Splinters
- Subtitle
- Another Kind of Love Story
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 0316374881
- EAN
- 9780316374880
- ISBN
- 9780316374880
- Publisher
- Little Brown & Company
- Genre
- Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism
- Topic
- Women, Subjects & Themes / Women, Marriage & Long-Term Relationships, Personal Memoirs, Literary
- Release Year
- 2024
- Release Date
- 20/02/2024
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Length
- 8.7in
- Item Width
- 5.8in
- Item Weight
- 13.5 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2024
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year: TIME , Oprah Daily, Publishers Weekly, Vogue, Vulture, The Millions, Kirkus Reviews, Lit Hub, The Story Exchange, The Messenger, Real Simple, How to Be, BookPage From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes "a blazing, unputdownable memoir" (Mary Karr, author of Lit ), the "piercing, intimate" story ( TIME Magazine ) of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage--an exploration of motherhood, art, and new love. Leslie Jamison has become one of our most beloved contemporary voices, a scribe of the real, the true, the complex. She has been compared to Joan Didion and Susan Sontag, acclaimed for her powerful thinking, deep feeling, and electric prose. But while Jamison has never shied away from challenging material--scouring her own psyche and digging into our most unanswerable questions across four books-- Splinters enters a new realm. In her first memoir, Jamison turns her unrivaled powers of perception on some of the most intimate relationships of her life: her consuming love for her young daughter, a ruptured marriage once swollen with hope, and the shaping legacy of her own parents' complicated bond. In examining what it means for a woman to be many things at once--a mother, an artist, a teacher, a lover--Jamison places the magical and the mundane side by side in surprising ways. The result is a work of nonfiction like no other, an almost impossibly deep reckoning with the muchness of life and art, and a book that grieves the departure of one love even as it celebrates the arrival of another. How do we move forward into joy when we are haunted by loss? How do we claim hope alongside the harm we've caused? A memoir for which the very term tour de force seems to have been coined, Splinters plumbs these and other pressing questions with writing that is revelatory to the last page, full of linguistic daring and emotional acuity. Jamison, a master of nonfiction, evinces once again her ability to "stitch together the intellectual and the emotional with the finesse of a crackerjack surgeon" (NPR).
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Publisher
Little Brown & Company
ISBN-10
0316374881
ISBN-13
9780316374880
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3060627779
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Book Title
Splinters : Another Kind of Love Story
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Women, Subjects & Themes / Women, Marriage & Long-Term Relationships, Personal Memoirs, Literary
Publication Year
2024
Genre
Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.7in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
13.5 Oz
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Reviews
" Splinters is as sharp and piercing as its title--a brilliant reckoning with what it means to make art, a self, a family, a life. If I were offered one guide as a writer, as a mother, as a teacher, as a human being constantly reinventing herself out of necessity, I'd want that guide to be Leslie Jamison. This memoir is a masterclass." -- Maggie Smith, New York Times bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful, "Jamison has emerged as a definitive chronicler of human connection and the beauty of mundanity... With this brilliant new collection that rigorously interrogates the human condition, Leslie Jamisonaffirms why she's the essayist of the moment."-- David Canfield, Entertainment Weekly, "Intriguing and poignant . . . Jamison manages here that most difficult of literary and psychological feats -- subtlety, nuance, and hard-earned empathy . . . Splinters is Leslie Jamison's most fearless, searching, vibrantly alive book yet"-- Boston Globe, "Christ Almighty this book is good. It's a masterpiece. No one else I've read has captured motherhood--the painful overabundance of it, the extreme delight, the cascading fears--the way Leslie Jamison does in Splinters . No one else I've read has evoked so powerfully what it feels like to be pulled by too many competing tethers until you're half a mother, half a writer, barely a wife, hardly a real person. The electric truth at the heart of this book is that, in this shattering and reassembling, you're reorganized into a new kind of person, one attuned to abundance, open to chaos and surprise, gratified by the tiny pleasures of being alive. In Splinters , Jamison offers us an emotionally rich odyssey on the terrors and triumph of becoming whole."-- Heather Havrilesky, author of Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage and the "Ask Polly" advice column, "I didn't realize I needed someone to write this book. As it turns out, I needed Leslie Jamison to write this book. It moved me so much and hooked me so quickly. I absolutely consumed it, this book about hunger and aftermath, about pleasure and beauty and silencing and speaking up, and that new language you get to invent and learn at the same time with your child. Splinters is enormously satisfying--full of passages, images, and ideas that are, quite simply, some of my favorite things I've ever read."-- Mary-Louise Parker, New York Times bestselling author of Dear Mr. You, and Emmy, Golden Globe, and Tony Award winner, "Fascinating and sometimes harrowing memoir... A book of unusually clear intelligence and compassion... You will keep thinking about it, remember moments and lines from it, its power increases over time rather than diminishes."-- New York Times Culture Desk podcast, "Intelligent and vibrant... Make It Scream, Make It Burn tackles the all-too-human topic of yearning and its oft-corollary, obsession. Both gurgle beneath the writer's sonorous and captivating prose."-- Janet Kinosian, Los Angeles Times, "A dazzling collection about the outer reaches of human connection... Acute in her analysis and nourishing in her observations, Jamison is at the height of her powers here as she investigates what we owe one another."-- Adrienne Westenfeld, Esquire, "In Splinters , Jamison offers a riveting portrait of rupture that is at once a page-turner about divorce, a romance about parenthood, a mystery of self after splintering, and a promise that however many times we break or are broken, art and love will never fail to mend us." -- Melissa Febos, author of the National Book Critics Circle Award winner and national bestseller Girlhood, "In different variations of her signature, beautifully frank language, Jamison writes about her fantasy of stability and her uncertainty as to whether it's a dream she actually wants fulfilled. . . . In caring for her daughter, she finds -- at least on the page -- a way to live with it all, the sleeplessness and the joy, the rapture and the frustration, the immense love and the wish to have a single moment alone . . . She's a master at closing nearly every paragraph with what lands as an epiphany."-- NPR, "Sharply analytic and deeply personal... Make It Scream, Make It Burn is a heady hybrid of journalism, memoir, and criticism... This is a writer who is incapable of being uninteresting."-- Heller McAlpin, NPR, "Razor-sharp... Leslie Jamison has been hailed as the newborn lovechild of Joan Didion and Susan Sontag. Even for a writer without Jamison's generous helpings of talent and success, it can't be an easy thing to live up to. And yet, she does, and then some... The essays are reported, but also confessional, weaving the realities of disparate others onto Jamison's own experiences to create something rich, human and, at moments, so smart and revealing the reader finds herself gasping."-- Samantha Shoech, San Francisco Chronicle, "Jamison's Splinters is a refreshingly ambitious memoir that seeks to bridge this divide by showing us why child-rearing is as much about diapers and sleepless nights and as it is about heartbreak and hope. She reminds us that even if we aren't or never will be a parent or caregiver ourselves, we undoubtedly love someone who is."-- Hippocampus Magazine, "I can't stand blue cheese but I'm pretty sure if Leslie Jamison wrote a book about it, I would: a. read it, b. love it and c. seriously reconsider my long-standing Gorgonzola bias. That's a shorthand way of saying that Jamison's essays are so compassionate and insightful that she interests you in topics you may not think you care about and shows you new ways to view topics you already do care about it. . . . Jamison is hilarious, with a dry and usually self-deprecating wit in which the jokes are so graceful and surprising that you may need to read them twice . "-- Minneapolis Star-Tribune, "An astounding achievement. This is a memoir of emotional depth that reminds us that love, in its fullness, is as much a construction of jagged and flinty edges as an ideal of cloudless skies. In Splinters , Leslie Jamison is unstinting in her assessment of marriage gained and lost, of motherhood held close, and of loving oneself in the process, all conveyed with her unsparing and attentive eye."-- Esmé Weijun Wang, New York Times bestselling author of The Collected Schizophrenias, "Leslie Jamison's blazing memoir kept me riveted for the single day it took to guzzle it down. This wry, hilarious, and utterly unputdownable book is a gift that feels like an immediate hit and a forever classic."-- Mary Karr, New York Times bestselling author of Lit and The Liar's Club, "A prolific 40-year-old memoirist, Jamison has already chronicled her alcoholism and her anorexia, among other trials. Her talents as a writer allow these exercises in self-exposure to transcend self-indulgence, but she is wise about her impulse to transform the muck of life into artful prose . . . Her work is vivid with detail, and she is thoughtful on motherhood, which both undercuts and enhances her sense of self. " -- Economist, "Jamison delivers a searing account of divorce and the bewildering joys of new motherhood, cementing her status as one of America's most talented self-chroniclers."-- New York Times Editors' Choice, "Filled with heart, humor and unsparing insights, her searing memoir is a standout."-- People (Book of the Week)
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