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13%OFFJessa Crispin - The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries - 9780226278452 - V9780226278452
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The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries

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Description for The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 215 x 16. Weight in Grams: 306.
When Jessa Crispin was thirty, she burned her settled Chicago life to the ground and took off for Berlin with a pair of suitcases and no plan beyond leaving. Half a decade later, she's still on the road, in search not so much of a home as of understanding, a way of being in the world that demands neither constant struggle nor complete surrender. The Dead Ladies Project is an account of that journey-but it's also much, much more. Fascinated by exile, Crispin travels an itinerary of key locations in its literary map, of places that have drawn writers who ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226278452
SKU
V9780226278452
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
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99-50

About Jessa Crispin
Jessa Crispin is the editor and founder of the magazines Bookslut and Spolia. She has written for the New York Times, Guardian, Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, NPR.org, Chicago Sun-Times, Architect Magazine, and other publications. She has lived in Kansas, Texas, Ireland, Chicago, Berlin, and elsewhere.

Reviews for The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries
Tracing a pilgrimage of sorts across Europe to places where artistic couples mostly came to grief, Jessa Crispin confronts in searing personal terms the problem not just of being but of being with someone else. It is an unsettling and unforgettable journey.
John Biguenet
John Biguenet, author of The Torturer's Apprentice Suppose you could have for a traveling companion a ... Read more

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