Pathologies: A Life in Essays

Olding, Susan

ISBN 10: 1551119307 / ISBN 13: 9781551119304

Editore: FreeHand Books, 2008

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Riassunto:

“In simple terms, pathology is the scientific study of the way things go wrong.”

In these fifteen searingly honest personal essays, debut author Susan Olding takes us on an unforgettable journey into the complex heart of being human. Each essay dissects an aspect of Olding’s life experience—from her vexed relationship with her father to her tricky dealings with her female peers; from her work as a counsellor and teacher to her persistent desire, despite struggles with infertility, to have children of her own. In a suite of essays forming the emotional climax of the book, Olding bravely recounts the adoption of her daughter, Maia, from an orphanage in China, and tells us the story of Maia’s difficult adaptation to the unfamiliar state of being loved.

Written with as much lyricism, detail, and artfulness as the best short stories, the essays in Pathologies provide all the pleasures of fiction combined with the enrichment derived from the careful presentation of fact. Susan Olding is indisputably one of Canada’s finest new writers, one who has taken the challenging, much-underused form of the literary essay and made it her own.

Informazioni sull?autore:

Susan Olding was recently named one of The New Quarterly’s “Most Loved Living Writers” alongside authors including Patrick Lane and Alice Munro. Her poetry and prose have appeared widely in literary journals and anthologies across Canada and the United States. She has been a finalist for a National Magazine Award, two Western Magazine Awards, and a CBC Literary Award; she is also a two-time winner of the Event Creative Non-fiction Contest, as well as winner of the Prairie Fire Non-fiction Contest and the Brenda Ueland Prose Prize for Literary Non-fiction.

Born in Toronto, Susan Olding currently lives with her family in Kingston, Ontario, where she works at the Queen’s University Writing Centre.

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Titolo: Pathologies: A Life in Essays
Casa editrice: FreeHand Books
Data di pubblicazione: 2008
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: Good
Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket