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Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You In Your Life

Autor Yiyun Li
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 feb 2017
'Profoundly engaging in depth, with remarkable subtlety and rare, limpid beauty. A must-read' - Mary Gaitskill

A luminous memoir about reading, writing and how to find meaning in a life

Written over two years while the author battled depression,Dear Friendis a painful and yet richly affirming examination of what makes life worth living. Interweaving personal memoir with a wide-ranging celebration of writers and books, this is a journey of recovery through literature.

From William Trevor and Katherine Mansfield to Kierkegaard and Larkin, Yiyun Li traces the themes of time and transformation, presence and absence. Drawing on personal experiences from her difficult childhood in China, she constructs a beautiful, interior exploration of selfhood and what is required to choose life.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241283967
ISBN-10: 0241283965
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 mm
Editura: Penguin Books

Notă biografică

Yiyun Liis the author of three novels,Where Reasons End,The VagrantsandKinder Than Solitude, and two short-story collections,A Thousand Years of Good PrayersandGold Boy, Emerald Girl,as well as the memoir,Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life. She has won literary awards including the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and theGuardianFirst Book Award, and was listed amongGranta's 21 Best of Young American Novelists 2007. Her stories have been published in theNew Yorker,Paris Reviewand elsewhere. She is a MacArthur Fellow, a recipient of a Windham-Campbell Prize and a Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton University.

Recenzii

Reveals, gloriously, the companionship, intimacy, and insight that can come from obsession with the written word
Literature, the clash of public and private, human nature itself-these subjects and more are explored with remarkable subtlety and rare, limpid mental beauty. A must-read for anyone trying to stay sane in a world that might be perceived as insane
Weaving sharp literary criticism with a perceptive narrative about her life as an immigrant in America
An intimate memoir of darkest despair... A potent journey of depression that effectively testifies to unbearable pain and the consolation of literature
Quietly forceful, unrelenting... She unfolds an argument with the self, suspicious of the very concept , but not, ultimately, refuse its possibilities
Novelistic scenes, limpid prose, subtly moving emotion... Personal reminiscences [and] literary meditations... Li explores ruptures in time, the difficulty of writing autobiographical fiction, the pleasures of melodrama
Publisher's description. A luminous memoir from the award-winning author ofThe VagrantsandA Thousand Years of Good Prayers. Startlingly original and shining with quiet wisdom, this is the record of a life lived with books and a richly affirming examination of what makes any life worth living.
Beautiful and profound... This book is a terribly beautiful gift to the reader
A remarkable account of literary life [from] an important and gifted writer... Her new book is a meditation on the fact that literature itself lives and gives life
Extraordinary. A storyteller of the first order
Exceptional... one of our major novelists
Yiyun has the talent, the vision and the respect for life's insoluble mysteries... [she] is the real deal
A work of arresting revelations...A writer of meticulous reasoning, probing sensitivity, candor, and poise, Li parses mental states with psychological and philosophical precision in a beautifully measured and structured style born of both her scientific and literary backgrounds.
Li celebrates the authors who make reading a joyous pursuit, and the details that've made her own life worth living.