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Strange Bodies

A Story of Loss and Desire

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Buch | Softcover
2025
Granta Books (Verlag)
978-1-78378-991-7 (ISBN)
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In 2020, artist Tom de Freston and his novelist wife, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, discovered they were expecting twins. But Kiran miscarried, and thus began a long journey to parenthood that saw the loss of six more pregnancies.

In this intimate, personal book, de Freston explores his experience of the losses in his artwork, searching for a way to make sense of his and his wife's grief. His search for understanding leads him to work by artists ranging from Titian and Francis Bacon to Braca Ettinger and Gerhard Richter, and deep into Ovid's myth of Orpheus. As the miscarriages mount and de Freston becomes ever more aware of the precarious and bodily experience that is pregnancy, he excavates the erotic charge of the male gaze, its yearning for connection, and the boundaries that exist between lovers.

Addressed directly to de Freston's wife, Kiran, Strange Bodies is an authentic and powerfully moving account of a loving relationship coping with the struggle of making new life that pulses with wonder and insight.

Tom de Freston is a visual artist based in Oxford, and the author of Wreck: A Story of Art and Survival (Granta 2021). Among various fellowships and residencies he has held a Leverhulme residency at Cambridge University, a Levy Plumb Residency at Christ's College and the inaugural Creative Fellowship at Birmingham University. His work is regularly exhibited, and is represented in numerous public and private collections. With his wife, the writer Kiran Millwood Hargrave, he is the co-creator of Orpheus and Eurydice and Julia and the Shark, winner of the Waterstones Children's Gift of the Year.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 13.2.2025
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie Psychologie
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie Schwangerschaft / Geburt
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Trennung / Trauer
ISBN-10 1-78378-991-3 / 1783789913
ISBN-13 978-1-78378-991-7 / 9781783789917
Zustand Neuware
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