Betwixt-and-Between
β Scribed by Boully, Jenny
- Book ID
- 109554465
- Publisher
- Coffee House Press
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 3 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781566895187
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
"Jenny is the future of nonfiction in America. What an absurdly arrogant statement to make. I make it anyway. Watch." βJohn D'Agata
"Yes, Aristotle, there can be pleasure without 'complete and unified action with a beginning, middle, and end.' Jenny Boully has done it." βMary Jo Bang
"Jenny Boully is a deeply weird writerβin the best way." βAnder Monson
Jenny Boully's essays are ripe with romance and sensual pleasures, drawing connections between the digression, reflection, imagination, and experience that characterizes falling in love as well as the life of a writer. Literary theory, philosophy, and linguistics rub up against memory, dreamscapes, and fancy, making the practice of writing a metaphor for the illusory nature of experience. Betwixt and Between is, in many ways, simply a book about how to live.
Jenny Boully is the author of The Body: An Essay, The Book of Beginnings and Endings: Essays, not merely...
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