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The Trick Is To Keep Breathing
Janice Galloway
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Description for The Trick Is To Keep Breathing
Paperback. From the corner of a darkened room Joy Stone watches herself. As memories of the deaths of her lover and mother surface unbidden, life for Joy narrows - to negotiating each day, each encounter, each second; to finding the trick to keep living. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 16. Weight in Grams: 200.
From the corner of a darkened room Joy Stone watches herself. As memories of the deaths of her lover and mother surface unbidden, life for Joy narrows - to negotiating each day, each encounter, each second; to finding the trick to keep living. Told with shattering clarity and wry wit, this is a Scottish classic fit for our time.
From the corner of a darkened room Joy Stone watches herself. As memories of the deaths of her lover and mother surface unbidden, life for Joy narrows - to negotiating each day, each encounter, each second; to finding the trick to keep living. Told with shattering clarity and wry wit, this is a Scottish classic fit for our time.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784870133
SKU
V9781784870133
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About Janice Galloway
Janice Galloway's first novel, The Trick is to Keep Breathing, now widely regarded as a Scottish contemporary classic, was published in 1990 and won the MIND/Allen Lane Book of the Year. Her second novel, Foreign Parts, won the American Academy of Arts and Letters E. M. Forster Award while her third, Clara, about the tempestuous life of nineteenth-century pianist Clara Wieck Schumann, won the Saltire Award in 2002. Collaborative texts include an opera with Sally Beamish and three cross-discipline works with Anne Bevan, the Orcadian sculptor. Her 'anti-memoir', This Is Not About Me, was published by Granta in September 2008 to universal critical acclaim. She lives in Lanarkshire.
Reviews for The Trick Is To Keep Breathing
A real achievement; its dialogue sparks and its voice is true. For Janice Galloway the trick is simply to keep writing
Scotsman
This is like a Scottish Catcher in the Rye. You actually feel you’re inside this woman’s head, it is that visceral. And having experienced a downward spiral myself, I so admire her accuracy in every detail
Alan Cumming
New York Times
Claustrophobic but extraordinary
Sunday Times
An account from the inside of a mind cracking up...its writing is as taut as a bowstring. From brilliant title to closing injunction, it hums with intelligence, clarity, wit; and, its heroine's struggle for order and meaning seduces our minds, exposes how close we all of us are to insanity. Joy, as Galloway's heroine reluctantly lets us know that she's called, is simply that dangerous step or two nearer the edge
Listener
Distressing but immaculately written
Observer
This remarkably original work has gained Janice Galloway an almost immediate reputation as one of Scotland's most interesting serious prose writers
Glasgow Herald
What’s remarkable about this novel is that despite its dark themes, it manages to be uplifting… Joy Stone…is witty, warm and unfailingly honest about her hopes and fears.
Janet Ellis
Week
A very funny and sad novel
Penelope Fitzgerald
Sunday Times
Poignant and original...a wonderfully sensitive portrait of a woman who doesn't give up trying to find the "trick" to making life go on
Ms ?
Scotsman
This is like a Scottish Catcher in the Rye. You actually feel you’re inside this woman’s head, it is that visceral. And having experienced a downward spiral myself, I so admire her accuracy in every detail
Alan Cumming
New York Times
Claustrophobic but extraordinary
Sunday Times
An account from the inside of a mind cracking up...its writing is as taut as a bowstring. From brilliant title to closing injunction, it hums with intelligence, clarity, wit; and, its heroine's struggle for order and meaning seduces our minds, exposes how close we all of us are to insanity. Joy, as Galloway's heroine reluctantly lets us know that she's called, is simply that dangerous step or two nearer the edge
Listener
Distressing but immaculately written
Observer
This remarkably original work has gained Janice Galloway an almost immediate reputation as one of Scotland's most interesting serious prose writers
Glasgow Herald
What’s remarkable about this novel is that despite its dark themes, it manages to be uplifting… Joy Stone…is witty, warm and unfailingly honest about her hopes and fears.
Janet Ellis
Week
A very funny and sad novel
Penelope Fitzgerald
Sunday Times
Poignant and original...a wonderfully sensitive portrait of a woman who doesn't give up trying to find the "trick" to making life go on
Ms ?