An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination - Couverture rigide

McCracken, Elizabeth

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 022408710X ISBN 13 : 9780224087100

Editeur : Jonathan Cape Ltd, 2009

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

'This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending.'

A prize-winning, successful novelist in her 30s, Elizabeth McCracken was happy to be an itinerant writer and self-proclaimed spinster. Then she fell in love, got married, and continued her life of writing, travelling, and teaching with her husband.Two years ago, she found herself in a remote part of France, waiting for the birth of her first child.

This book is about what happens next. In the ninth month of her pregnancy, a baby is lost.Just over a year later, a baby is born. In a profoundly moving display of humour, heart, and unfailing generosity, McCracken tenderly presents her story: a story of true love and unfathomable sadness, of courageous recovery and bittersweet moments, of steadfast memories and deep affection.Grief walks through these pages of this remarkable book, but so do happiness and hope.

Biographie de l'auteur

Elizabeth McCracken is the author of five books, Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry, The Giant’s House (a National Book Award finalist), Niagara Falls All Over Again, the memoir An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imag­ination, and Thunderstruck & Other Stories (winner of the 2014 Story Prize, longlisted for the National Book Award). She has received grants and fellow­ships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts and she was chosen as one of Granta’s 20 Best American Writers Under 40. She has served on the faculty at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and currently holds the James Michener Chair for Fic­tion at the University of Texas at Austin.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 022408710X
• ISBN 13: 9780224087100
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 224