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What to Look for in Winter
Candia McWilliam
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Description for What to Look for in Winter
Hardcover. Focusing on love and loss, this book celebrates friendship, reading, love of children and the consolations of a landscape. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 165 x 36. Weight in Grams: 770. Good clean copy fine in dustjacket
Candia McWilliam had just joined the judging panel of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2006 when she started to lose her sight. The gradual onset of blindness seemed like an assault especially tailored for someone whose life consisted of reading and writing. The necessity to look inwards that followed took her on an even more painful personal journey through a waste of snows punctuated by shards of ice as she attempted to write her life back into human shape. At first she could only dictate, and the unfamiliar process unblocked a flow of memory and association concerning ... Read more
Candia McWilliam had just joined the judging panel of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2006 when she started to lose her sight. The gradual onset of blindness seemed like an assault especially tailored for someone whose life consisted of reading and writing. The necessity to look inwards that followed took her on an even more painful personal journey through a waste of snows punctuated by shards of ice as she attempted to write her life back into human shape. At first she could only dictate, and the unfamiliar process unblocked a flow of memory and association concerning ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780224088985
SKU
KJE0000247
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Candia McWilliam
Candia McWilliam was born in Edinburgh. She is the author of A Case of Knives (1988) which won a Betty Trask Prize, A Little Stranger (1989), Debatable Land (1994) which was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize and its Italian translation won the Premio Grinzane Cavour for the best foreign novel of the year, and a collection of stories, ... Read more
Reviews for What to Look for in Winter
"The most brutally honest and beautifully written account I have read of somebody's own failings and suffering"
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