Will and Attention
Autor Meghan O'Gieblynen Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 oct 2026
'One of the best memoirs of the decade' Jia Tolentino
'Brilliant' Lorrie Moore
'Mesmerizing' Claire Vaye Watkins, author of I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness
'Staggering' Keiran Goddard, author of I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning
'Profound' Chloe Benjamin, author of Under Story
In her late thirties, Meghan O'Gieblyn found herself in crisis. Earlier that year, she had relapsed back into an alcohol addiction she had kicked in her twenties. The year before that, she had been briefly drawn back to the faith she had renounced decades earlier, through a friendship she developed with a Catholic priest.
Both of these events happened in secret, hidden from everyone close to her, and both felt like acts of regression - a return to paths she had walked before. This fundamentally unsettled her belief that she was a unified self with transparent motives. How is a person to avoid those irrational mistakes that they continually return to, despite knowing they are harmful? Can we truly master our will, or are we always divided selves? And can we ever satisfy the deep yearning our compulsions speak to?
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780385551571
ISBN-10: 0385551576
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10: 0385551576
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Recenzii
'I was instantly helpless before Will and Attention ... a cool-water baptism, so bracing I felt transformed' Jia Tolentino
In her late thirties, Meghan O'Gieblyn found herself in crisis. After many years away from the evangelical Christianity of her childhood, she had begun secretly attending Catholic mass and meeting with a priest to discuss conversion. Then, after eleven years of sobriety, she had begun drinking again.
Both of these returns - to organised religion and to addiction - happened in secret, hidden from everyone close to her, and both felt like personal defeat. This fundamentally unsettled her belief that she was a unified self with transparent motives. Can we truly master our will, or are we always divided selves? And can we ever satisfy the deep yearning our compulsions speak to?
Soon after her return to sobriety, Meghan looked to a series of spiritual texts for answers and began putting them in conversation with her life. She was struck by the words of philosopher and mystic Simone Weil: "We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will." Will had certainly failed her; perhaps the answer lay in attention to her wandering mind and heart? Inspired by this possibility, she set out to find a spirituality that could meet her longings and prove capacious enough to hold the shadowy side of human nature.
Written with bracing honesty and glowing intellect, Will and Attention is a shatteringly beautiful memoir about darkness, recovery and how to live.
'I savoured equally O'Gieblyn's sentences and the turns of her thought-at once precise as the cut of a razor and as pleasurably discursive as Montaigne' Melissa Febos, author of Girlhood
Meghan O'Gieblyn is a seeker, a wry skeptic, a spiritual explorer, and a beautiful writer. Will and Attention amounts to a brilliant portrait of a brilliant person: gentle, melancholy, bracing, and astute
I was instantly helpless before Meghan O'Gieblyn's Will and Attention, which spoke with a kind of flaying clarity and graceful consolation to a set of questions about worth, depravity, intention, and practice that scaffold my entire experience of the world. O'Gieblyn brings profound rigor to an examination of terrifying malleability; she is philosophically unrestricted while being uncompromising in her honesty about confusion and doubt. This is one of the best memoirs of the decade - a cool-water baptism, so bracing I felt transformed
Will and Attention is a feat of uncommon honesty. O'Gieblyn's intellectual rigor and spiritual bravery land her in the firmament of the finest thinkers to take up these two vast, essential, and entwined subjects. A bracing, beautiful book that reads like a fortifying talk with an intimate companion. Mesmerizing, invigorating, and profound
Staggering. This is the single best book about the relationship between faith and addiction I have ever read, which, by definition, makes it the single best book about addiction I have ever read. A prayer to recovery in the deepest sense of the word: the reclamation of something fundamental. It turns out the God-shaped hole was book-shaped all along
Meghan O'Gieblyn explores the recursive nature of struggle, the untidiness of growth, and the humility of being human. Will and Attention is a profound act of personal, spiritual, and philosophical inquiry. I'll be thinking about this book for a long time
An elegant and philosophical memoir about addiction whose stakes are no less than what comprises one's will to live, what it means to be good, and the worth of devotion. I savored equally O'Gieblyn's sentences and the turns of her thought-at once precise as the cut of a razor and as pleasurably discursive as Montaigne
Will and Attention had an immediate and profound effect on me. I have not stopped thinking about it since, both as a source of comfort and one of inspiration - it seems to offer both salves at once. I found it astonishing
In her late thirties, Meghan O'Gieblyn found herself in crisis. After many years away from the evangelical Christianity of her childhood, she had begun secretly attending Catholic mass and meeting with a priest to discuss conversion. Then, after eleven years of sobriety, she had begun drinking again.
Both of these returns - to organised religion and to addiction - happened in secret, hidden from everyone close to her, and both felt like personal defeat. This fundamentally unsettled her belief that she was a unified self with transparent motives. Can we truly master our will, or are we always divided selves? And can we ever satisfy the deep yearning our compulsions speak to?
Soon after her return to sobriety, Meghan looked to a series of spiritual texts for answers and began putting them in conversation with her life. She was struck by the words of philosopher and mystic Simone Weil: "We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will." Will had certainly failed her; perhaps the answer lay in attention to her wandering mind and heart? Inspired by this possibility, she set out to find a spirituality that could meet her longings and prove capacious enough to hold the shadowy side of human nature.
Written with bracing honesty and glowing intellect, Will and Attention is a shatteringly beautiful memoir about darkness, recovery and how to live.
'I savoured equally O'Gieblyn's sentences and the turns of her thought-at once precise as the cut of a razor and as pleasurably discursive as Montaigne' Melissa Febos, author of Girlhood
Meghan O'Gieblyn is a seeker, a wry skeptic, a spiritual explorer, and a beautiful writer. Will and Attention amounts to a brilliant portrait of a brilliant person: gentle, melancholy, bracing, and astute
I was instantly helpless before Meghan O'Gieblyn's Will and Attention, which spoke with a kind of flaying clarity and graceful consolation to a set of questions about worth, depravity, intention, and practice that scaffold my entire experience of the world. O'Gieblyn brings profound rigor to an examination of terrifying malleability; she is philosophically unrestricted while being uncompromising in her honesty about confusion and doubt. This is one of the best memoirs of the decade - a cool-water baptism, so bracing I felt transformed
Will and Attention is a feat of uncommon honesty. O'Gieblyn's intellectual rigor and spiritual bravery land her in the firmament of the finest thinkers to take up these two vast, essential, and entwined subjects. A bracing, beautiful book that reads like a fortifying talk with an intimate companion. Mesmerizing, invigorating, and profound
Staggering. This is the single best book about the relationship between faith and addiction I have ever read, which, by definition, makes it the single best book about addiction I have ever read. A prayer to recovery in the deepest sense of the word: the reclamation of something fundamental. It turns out the God-shaped hole was book-shaped all along
Meghan O'Gieblyn explores the recursive nature of struggle, the untidiness of growth, and the humility of being human. Will and Attention is a profound act of personal, spiritual, and philosophical inquiry. I'll be thinking about this book for a long time
An elegant and philosophical memoir about addiction whose stakes are no less than what comprises one's will to live, what it means to be good, and the worth of devotion. I savored equally O'Gieblyn's sentences and the turns of her thought-at once precise as the cut of a razor and as pleasurably discursive as Montaigne
Will and Attention had an immediate and profound effect on me. I have not stopped thinking about it since, both as a source of comfort and one of inspiration - it seems to offer both salves at once. I found it astonishing