What to Look for in Winter - Couverture souple

McWilliam, Candia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099539535 ISBN 13 : 9780099539537

Editeur : Vintage, 2011

Synopsis

What to Look for in Winter Candia McWilliam had just joined the judging panel of the Man Booker Prize for fiction in 2006 when she started to lose her sight. The gradual onset of blindness seemed especially cruel to her whose life depended on reading and writing. This book describes families and friendship, love and loss and that most elusive of things - a sense of self. Full description

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

'An essential book...a thing of beauty and of unbearable hurt, of dreadful harm and intense humanity' Scotsman

'Miraculous'

Hilary Spurling, Guardian

'A searingly honest, beautiful book'

Kate Mosse, Daily Telegraph

Candia McWilliam had just joined the judging panel of the Man Booker Prize for fiction in 2006 when she started to lose her sight. The gradual onset of blindness seemed especially cruel to someone whose life depended on reading and writing. As McWilliam's sight disappeared she looked inwards and began to remember her Edinburgh childhood, her mother's suicide, her teenage escape into another identity, her marriages, her children and, stalking all these memories, her increasing alcoholism. What To Look For In Winter is a magical, uplifting and truly wise book about families and friendship, love and loss and that most elusive of things - a sense of self.

'A triumph'

Evening Standard

'One of the most extraordinary literary autobiographies of this or any other year'

The Times

'Startling, discomforting, complicated, hilarious and heart-rending'Sunday Telegraph

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Candia McWilliam had just joined the judging panel of the Man Booker Prize for fiction in 2006 when she started to lose her sight. The gradual onset of blindness seemed especially cruel to someone whose life depended on reading and writing. As McWilliam's sight disappeared she looked inwards and began to remember her Edinburgh childhood, her mother's suicide, her teenage escape into another identity, her marriages, her children and, stalking all these memories, her increasing alcoholism.

What To Look For In Winter is a magical, uplifting and truly wise book about families and friendship, love and loss and that most elusive of things - a sense of self.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0099539535
• ISBN 13: 9780099539537
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 496