Little Bit - Couverture souple

Taylor-Johnson, Heather

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 192304253X ISBN 13 : 9781923042537

Editeur : Wakefield Press, 2024

Synopsis

'She was a good person when she wasn't drunk.' Debbie's earliest memory of her mother is that her mother was not there, but any story of neglect always has two sides. When Debbie's daughter, Heather, says she wants to write a book about her upbringing, Debbie begins to string together jagged memories of growing up with Stella, and it's proving more painful than she could've ever imagined.

Part memoir, part biography, part imagination, Little Bit is a story with a third side. Told in the alternating perspectives of Debbie and Stella, Heather writes the story of her mother's and grandmother's lives, where addiction is rife and regret is a constant, and where survival for a woman in a man's world is anything but straightforward. Fiction or nonfiction, this is a book that cannot be categorised and will not be quiet.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Heather Taylor-Johnson is an American-born, multi-form writer, living and working on Kaurna land near Port Adelaide. She's the author of five poetry collections and a verse novel. The anthology she edited, Shaping the Fractured Self: Poetry of chronic illness and pain, is read in disability circles around the world. Her essays have won Island's Nonfiction Prize and been shortlisted for the Australian Book Review's Calibre Prize, while her second novel, Jean Harley was Here, was shortlisted for the Readings Prize for New Fiction. She's an arts critic, mentor and assessor, and runs a modest writers' retreat in the Fleurieu Peninsula. She's an Adjunct Researcher at the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide, where she received her PhD in Creative Writing.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wakefield Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 192304253X
• ISBN 13: 9781923042537
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 332
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible