Boy Friends (eBook)

'Astonishingly compelling' STEPHEN FRY

Michael Pedersen (Autor)

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2022 | 1. Auflage
272 Seiten
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-36757-3 (ISBN)

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An intimate and original memoir of love, grief and male friendship by one of Scotland's brightest young talents. 'As perfect a portrait of friendship as I've ever read.' STEPHEN FRY 'Lucid, lyrical, loaded . . . A love letter to friendship.' JACKIE KAY 'A lovely book: bright and heartfelt, funny and refreshing.' ANDREW O'HAGAN 'A beautiful, moving, life-affirming book.' IAN RANKIN Friendships might just be the greatest love affairs of our lives . . . In 2018 poet and author Michael Pedersen lost a cherished friend, Scott Hutchison, soon after their collective voyage into the landscape of the Scottish Highlands. Just weeks later, Michael began to write to him. As he confronts the bewildering process of grief, what starts as a love letter to one magical, coruscating human soon becomes a paean to all the gorgeous male friendships that have transformed his life. 'Boy Friends sees Pedersen illuminate these companions with a poet's eye, a comedian's timing - and a lover's care.' OBSERVER 'Written with enough electricity that it seems to jolt off the page . . . Boy Friends opens up conversations about . . . the brunt of suicide, the circumstances of certain types of Scottish masculinity and where friendships fit into that.' SUNDAY TIMES

Michael Pedersen is a prize-winning poet and author of Boy Friends, which was a Sunday Times Critics Choice and shortlisted for the Saltire Scottish National Book Awards. He was awarded a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship and is the current Writer in Residence at the University of Edinburgh, and Edinburgh's Makar.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.7.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Trennung / Trauer
• Schlagworte: Elizabeth Gilbert, Dolly Alderton, Pandora Sykes, Elizabeth Day, Emilie Pine, Notes to Self, Constellations, Sinead Gleeson • Friendship, Male Friendship, Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain, Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies, A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara, The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini, The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead, This Book Will Save Your Live, AM Homes, The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes, Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh, On the Road, Jack Kerouac • Griefcast, Terrible thanks for asking, Grief Encounters, NPR Grief, Grief Works, Julia Samuel, The Art of Dying Well, Bereavement Room, On the Marie Curie Couch • Grief, Frightened Rabbit, Scott Hutchinson • Loss • Male friendship • Max Porter • Memoir • Memoirs, grief memoirs, Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive, The Comfort Book, The Midnight Library, Max Porter, Grief is the Thing With Feathers, Lanny, The Death of Francis Bacon, Cathy Rentzenbrink, The Last Act of Love, A Manual for Heartache, The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion, H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald, Wave, Sonali Deraniyagala • Michael Pedersen, Neu! Reekie! Play With Me, Oyster, Hollie McNish, Slug, Nobody Told Me, Plum, Cherry Pie, Papers • Poetry • Poetry, Poets, Popular Poetry, Jackie Kay, Liz Lochead, Lomond Cambell, Bill Drummond, Kae Tempest, George the Poet, Anthony Anaxagorou, Inua Ellams, Debris Stevenson • Scott Hutchinson, Owl John, The Fruit Tree Foundation, Mastersystem, Frightened Rabbit, Sing the Greys, The Midnight Organ Flight, The Winter of Mixed Drinks, Pedestrian Verse, Painting of a Panic Attack • Scottish Literature
• ISBN-10: 0-571-36757-7 / 0571367577
• ISBN-13: 978-0-571-36757-3 / 9780571367573