Little Labours

ISBN-13: 9780008225209 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 144 str.

Rivka Galchen

Opis

AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR A droll and dazzling compendium of observations, stories, lists, and brief essays about babies. 'Beguiling ... A wunderkabinett of baby-related curios ... A peculiar book, and astonishing in its effect.' Boston Globe

Recenzje

'Little Labours triumphantly breaks the silent embargo, demonstrating how these little 'bundles of joy' can transcend cloying cliché to spark fantastic flights of the imagination and critical introspection' Financial Times

'Odd, witty, nimble ... A stimulating read, a curio, for any woman, mother or not, interested in a unique slant on new parenthood' Observer

'She writes about her new baby as a puma; a plucked chicken; a force of nature that blows her apart and then puts her back together, different. A micro-masterpiece written in short, sharp, hallucinatory fragments' Irish Times

'The fragmentary nature of Little Labours perfectly evokes the state of new motherhood, in which moments of reflection are fleeting; bright flashes that are chased away almost as soon as they arrive. The parts themselves glisten and lodge in the memory. They are "small as opposed to minor"' Guardian

'Galchen does something more profound than tackle motherhood; she utterly reinvents and reanimates the subject' Interview Magazine

'A book of extraordinary savour, with nearly every sentence calling for an emphatic underline ... The sense upon finishing this tiny tome is that it is indeed very small, but not in the least bit minor' The National Post

'Galchen is, for my money, one of the most gifted stylists writing in American English today. Her funniness is otherworldly. Preternaturally deft, Galchen can do almost anything with next to nothing.' Los Angeles Review of Books

'A highly original book of essays and observations ... I adore Galchen's quiet, and the bravery of this book's fragments ... Motherhood is an undiscovered country in the literary sense, one we must venture into lest our experience goes unrecorded, or recorded only by men ... I am confident that many mothers (and other sleepless readers) will pick up this book and feel that they have found an unexpectedly intimate friend' The New York Times Book Review

'A funny, profound memoir' Emma Healey, Observer, Books of the Year

O autorze

Rivka Galchen received her MD from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, having spent a year in South America working on public health issues. Galchen completed her MFA at Columbia University, where she was a Robert Bingham Fellow. Her essay on the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics was published in The Believer, and she is the recipient of a 2006 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. Galchen lives in New York City. She is the author of the novel Atmospheric Disturbances.