Splinters: A Memoir by Leslie Jamison Hardcover Book

Description: Splinters by Leslie Jamison From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveting story of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage - an exploration of motherhood, art and new love. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In this blend of memoir and criticism, Leslie Jamison turns her attention to some of the most intimate relationships of her life - her consuming love for her young daughter, and a ruptured marriage once swollen with hope - and examines what it means for a woman to be many things at once: a mother, an artist, a teacher, a lover.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... This memoir is a masterclass - Maggie Smith, author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful Author Biography Leslie Jamison grew up in Los Angeles. Educated at Harvard College and the Iowa Writers Workshop, she has also worked as an innkeeper in California, a schoolteacher in Nicaragua, and an office temp in Manhattan. She is the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams, as well as a novel, The Gin Closet, and the essay collection Make it Scream, Make it Burn. Her work has appeared in Harpers, The Atlantic, Oxford American, Virginia Quarterly Review, and the New York Times Magazine, where she is a contributing writer. She directs the graduate nonfiction program at Columbia University. Review An exceptional read, guiding [the] reader through [Leslies] thrilling and bitter and fulfilling affairs of the heart * Vogue *Beautifully interwoven and unputdownable... squishing layer upon layer of resonant truths into meticulously crafted paragraphs * Red *[Splinters] pages are lit by flinty humour and grownup joy as thought and feeling are joined in prose thats intimate and exacting... never less than gripping... A mother-daughter love story that reads like a classic * Observer *An utterly absorbing account of motherhood, love and loss, in jaw-dropping sentences. Jamison transforms familiar subjects into something elemental and unique, and is one of the finest non-fiction storytellers at work in the world today. -- Sinead GleesonSplinters is as sharp and piercing as its title - a brilliant reckoning with what it means to make art, a self, a family, a life... This memoir is a masterclass -- Maggie Smith, author of You Could Make This Place BeautifulLeslie Jamisons 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, author of Lit and The Art of MemoirAn 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 -- Esmé Weijun Wang, author of The Collected SchizophreniasSplinters is a treatise on the contradictions of being a mother, a partner, a daughter and an artist - singly, and all at once... Jamisons love for her daughter is the crux of this book * New Statesman * Promotional From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveting story of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage - an exploration of motherhood, art and new love. Details ISBN1783788917 Author Leslie Jamison Pages 272 Publisher Granta Books Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781783788910 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2024-02-22 Imprint Granta Books Subtitle A Memoir Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom UK Release Date 2024-02-22 Audience General DEWEY 306.893092 NZ Release Date 2024-05-06 ISBN-10 1783788917 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:160016621;

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