Lidia Yuknavitch

The Chronology of Water

Sprache: Englisch.
kartoniert , 291 Seiten
ISBN 1786893304
EAN 9781786893307
Veröffentlicht Januar 2020
Verlag/Hersteller Canongate Books Ltd.
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Beschreibung

A memoir from the author of "The Book Of Joan", drawing attention to the potential of the exhilaration of swimming - and other outlets for desire and expression - for overcoming the difficulties wrought by a troubled early life.

Portrait

Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the novels The Book of Joan, The Small Backs of Children (winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Awards' Ken Kesey Award for Fiction and the Readers' Choice Award) and Dora: A Headcase. Her highly acclaimed memoir, The Chronology of Water, was a finalist for a PEN Center USA award for Creative Non-fiction and winner of a PNBA Award and the Oregon Book Awards' Readers' Choice. Her TED talk, 'The Beauty of Being a Misfit', has been watched over two million times. Lidia teaches in Oregon, where she lives with her husband Andy Mingo and their son. She is a very good swimmer.
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