Coventry: Essays
By: Rachel Cusk
3.73
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three "literary masterpieces…
Want to Read $ 11.99"The rules of writing are mostly indistinguishable from the rules of living, but this tends to be the last place people look when searching for 'there'."-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays
"Indeed, we believe everyone has a book in them - a book, not a symphony, and not even a poem. What is it, this book everyone has in them? It is, perhaps, that haunting entity, the 'true' self. The true self seeks release, not constraint."-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays
"War is a narrative: it might almost be said to embody the narrative principle itself. It is the attempt to create a story of life, to create agreement. In war, there is no point of view; war is the end of point of view, where violence is welcomed as the final means of arriving at a common version of events."-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays
"In marriage, the woman compensates for her lack of external power by commandeering the story. Isn't that right? She fills the silence, the mystery of her own acts and aims, with a structured account of life whose relationship to the truth might sometimes be described as voluntary. I am familiar with that account: I spent my childhood listening to it. And what I noticed was how, over the years, its repetitions and elisions and exaggerations ceased to exasperate its listeners so much as silence them. After a while, people stopped bothering to try to put the record straight: on the contrary, they became, in a curious way, dependent on the teller of this tale, in which they featured as central characters. The sheer energy and wilful, self-constructing logic of narrative, which at first made one cringe and protest every time the truth was dented, came over time to seem preferable to elusive, chaotic reality."-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays
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1. Things I Don't Want to Know
By: Deborah Levy
4.09
Format: 109 pages, Hardcover
'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinkin… read more
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"Now that we were mothers we were all shadows of our former selves, chased by the women we used to be before we had children."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"The fact that lipstick and mascara and eye shadow were called 'Make Up' thrilled me. Everywhere in the world there were made up people and most of them were women."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
2. Artful
By: Ali Smith
4.16
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The incomparable Ali Smith melds the tale and the essay into a magical hybrid form, a song of prais… read more
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3. The Boys of My Youth
By: Jo Ann Beard
3.81
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
Rarely does the debut of a new writer garner such attention & acclaim. The excitement began the mom… read more
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4. The Faraway Nearby
By: Rebecca Solnit
3.84
Format: 523 pages, Hardcover
This personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy from award winner Rebecca Solnit is… read more
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5. A Horse at Night: On Writing
By: Amina Cain
4.03
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A virtuosic meditation on literature and life in the tradition of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s … read more
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- art
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"For me, fiction is a space of plainness and excess."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"Female solitude is weighted with a particular power in literature."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"I want to leave a chain of images that remain in the reader's mind. I want to write what heightened experience feels like."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"Perhaps solitude is a practice as much as an instinct, its pleasures very much contextual. Sometimes being alone is terrible."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
6. Elolliset
By: Iida Turpeinen
4.38
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Vuonna 1741 luonnontieteilijä ja teologi Georg Wilhelm Steller seilaa kapteeni Vitus Beringin retki… read more
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7. 36 uurnaa : väärässä olemisen historia
By: Sirpa Kähkönen
3.59
Format: 267 pages, Hardcover
Kirjailija Sirpa Kähkösen äiti Riitta (s. 1941) kuoli maaliskuussa 2022 pitkään sairastettuaan. Elä… read more
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8. Hyeenan päivät
By: Saara Turunen
3.74
Format: 281 pages, Hardcover
”En ollut suostunut uskomaan, että elämä ilman lasta olisi tyhjää, olin vakuutellut itselleni, ette… read more
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9. August Blue
By: Deborah Levy
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more
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- contemporary
- literary fiction
- british literature
"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"-Deborah Levy, August Blue
10. Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
By: Deborah Levy
4.29
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
'Three bicycles. Seven ghosts. A crumbling apartment block on the hill. Fame. Tenderness. The statu… read more
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"É difícil reivindicar fragilidade e força em igual proporção, mas é essa mistura que nos constitui a todos"-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
"A história neste livro era sobre uma mulher que oferece a sua vida a um homem. Não se deve tentar isso em casa, mas é normalmente aí que acontece."-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
"The story in this book was about a woman who has gifted her life to a man. This is not something to be tried at home but it is usually where it happens."-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
"One of these men told me at a book festival that if he did not transgress too many boundaries in his marriage, there would always be a comforting pair of slippers warming for him by the fire...Will t…"-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
11. The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
By: Deborah Levy
4.18
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
A searching examination of all the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-tim… read more
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"Sometimes we want to unbelong as much as we want to belong."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"It was a big release from the terror of death to finally acknowledge that it is also always absurd."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"I might one day risk falling in love again, but I was not going to lose my heart to the cardiologist."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"To unfold any number of ideas through all the dimensions of time is the great adventure of the writing life."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
12. Yhdellä meistä on kokemus epäasiallisesta kohtelusta
By: Irene Kajo
3.92
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Esikoisromaani vallankäytöstä ja väkivallasta taidealalla. Missä menee raja taiteentekemisen ja … read more
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13. Liv!
By: Helmi Kekkonen
3.72
Format: 183 pages, Hardcover
Kaksikymmentäkaksivuotias Liv viettää perheensä kesäpaikassa viimeistä lomaviikkoaan, hän on raukea… read more
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14. Hiekkalinnat: Erittelyjä rakkausromaania varten
By: Jukka Viikilä
3.33
Format: 171 pages, Hardcover
Kaksinkertaisen Finlandia-voittajan romaani on häikäisevä tutkielma rakkaudesta, seksistä ja uskoll… read more
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15. Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
By: Olivia Laing
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction” (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in th… read more
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"Empathy is not something that happens to us when we read Dickens. It’s work. What art does is provide material with which to think: new registers, new spaces. After that, friend, it’s up to you."-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"The Argonauts is about these small, miraculous domestic dramas, and the acts of readjustment and care that they require, but it is also a reconsideration of what the institutions established around s…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"Fiction can do that: can make a space for reflecting, for generating novel ways of responding and reacting to lies and guns and walls alike. The mere act of cracking open a book, Smith thinks, is cre…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"These narratives are interesting in and of themselves, but Nelson isn’t just airing her feelings out. She’s bent on using these experiences as ways of prying the culture open, of investigating what i…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
16. Coventry: Essays
By: Rachel Cusk
3.73
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three "literary masterpieces… read more
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- literary fiction
- memoir
- british literature
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- feminism
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- contemporary
"The rules of writing are mostly indistinguishable from the rules of living, but this tends to be the last place people look when searching for 'there'."-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays
"Indeed, we believe everyone has a book in them - a book, not a symphony, and not even a poem. What is it, this book everyone has in them? It is, perhaps, that haunting entity, the 'true' self. The tr…"-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays
"War is a narrative: it might almost be said to embody the narrative principle itself. It is the attempt to create a story of life, to create agreement. In war, there is no point of view; war is the e…"-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays
"In marriage, the woman compensates for her lack of external power by commandeering the story. Isn't that right? She fills the silence, the mystery of her own acts and aims, with a structured account …"-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays
17. Rakkauksien lokikirja
By: Elina Hirvonen
3.83
Format: 227 pages, Hardcover
Romaanitrilogian ensimmäisessä osassa rakkauteen liittyvistä keskusteluista muodostuu ihmisten väli… read more
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18. Luontainen käytös
By: Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde
4.11
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
Lily on juuri saanut lapsen. Hänen suhteensa vanhemmuuteen on kuitenkin vaikea. Lapsuuden takaumiss… read more
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19. Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction Ser.)
By: Megan Harlan
4.63
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Mobile Home explores the emotional structures and metaphysical geographies of home as inspired by M… read more
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"A city is a place where interesting always beats beautiful."-Megan Harlan, Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction Ser.)
"I need the sky's colored threads to tangle inside me, pull me somewhere new."-Megan Harlan, Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction Ser.)
"Books mimic adrenaline to the narratively restless: nests of worlds in which the mind takes predestined flights from time and place."-Megan Harlan, Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction Ser.)
"At a certain point I need to go wandering. My feet need to hit earth, again and again, that bone-filling drumbeat. I need the sky's colored threads to tangle inside me, pull me somewhere new."-Megan Harlan, Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction Ser.)
20. Los Angeles -esseet
By: Aino Frilander
3.78
Format: 172 pages, Hardcover
Taidokasta proosaa ikonisesta kaupungista. Esikoiskokoelmassa sekä antaudutaan nostalgian vietäv… read more
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21. Varjotajunta
By: Harry Salmenniemi
3.81
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
Autofiktiota ja sen parodiaa yhdistävä Varjotajunta kuvaa junamatkaa, hieman kuivaa croissantia, ko… read more
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