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Bluets
Maggie Nelson
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Description for Bluets
Hardback. Takes you through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way famous blue figures, including Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Yves Klein, Leonard Cohen, and Andy Warhol. In this book, the narrator sets out to construct a sort of 'pillow book' about her lifelong obsession with the colour blue. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 130. .
A Guardian Book of the Year Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation - Olivia Laing Bluets winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with famous blue figures, including Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Yves Klein, Leonard Cohen and Andy Warhol. While its narrator sets out to construct a sort of `pillow book' about her lifelong obsession with the colour blue, she ends up facing down both the painful end of an ... Read more
A Guardian Book of the Year Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation - Olivia Laing Bluets winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with famous blue figures, including Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Yves Klein, Leonard Cohen and Andy Warhol. While its narrator sets out to construct a sort of `pillow book' about her lifelong obsession with the colour blue, she ends up facing down both the painful end of an ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781911214526
SKU
V9781911214526
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-99
About Maggie Nelson
Maggie Nelson is a poet, critic and the author of five books of non-fiction. Her books include The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial, The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (a New York Times Editor's Choice) and The Argonauts (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award), as well as four collections of poetry. In 2016 she was awarded the ... Read more
Reviews for Bluets
Transcendent.... very inspiring. She's an amazing writer.
Lorde
Irish Times
Maggie Nelson... She's so much better than anything I've read for a long, long time.
Karl Ove Knausgaard The book that changed my life... it's just brilliant.
Sophie Mackintosh
Guardian
I remember where I was when I ... Read more
Lorde
Irish Times
Maggie Nelson... She's so much better than anything I've read for a long, long time.
Karl Ove Knausgaard The book that changed my life... it's just brilliant.
Sophie Mackintosh
Guardian
I remember where I was when I ... Read more