The Empathy Exams

Essays

Leslie Jamison (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2015
Granta Books (Verlag)
978-1-84708-842-0 (ISBN)

Infos

A powerful yet refreshing essay collection centred around themes of confession, illness, violence and sentimentality from an exciting new American talent

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The subjects of this stylish and audacious collection of essays range from an assault in Nicaragua to a Morgellons meeting; from Frida Kahlo's plaster casts to a gangland tour of LA. Jamison is interested in how we tell stories about injury and pain, and the limits that circumstances, bodies and identity put on the act of describing.

Autor

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 NewYork Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams, as well as a novel, The Gin Closet. Her work has appeared in Harper's, 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.6.2015
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 129 x 198 mm
• Gewicht: 173 g
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• ISBN-10: 1-84708-842-2 / 1847088422
• ISBN-13: 978-1-84708-842-0 / 9781847088420
• Zustand: Neuware