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You tell me we are made of seven billion billion billion atoms. I can feel every one of them as I write this all down. It's a rush to feel that, like falling in love. Remembering is like falling in love with you, with us, again and again.
What makes us who we are? What stories do we inherit - and leave behind?
Faced with the prospect of losing her memory, a writer revisits the moments that changed her - from childhood to motherhood, loss and ill-health. Through shifting pronouns and perspectives, moving across place and time, each piece twists the kaleidoscope of existence to make sense of the present through the past. From the opening battle between her brain and her body, a conversation emerges between her collection of selves: the Daughter, the Sister, the Dancer, the Gardener, the Mother, the Girl-Who-Read-Woolf. Reliving her journey of becoming, she unpicks the fabric of fact and experience to stitch a new tapestry of personhood, both real and imaginary, mundane and profound.
All of Us Atoms offers a tender portrait of the tension between our drive to make sense of things and the freedom that comes from throwing categories away. It heralds the arrival of a major new literary voice, urging us to reframe and reclaim our own stories and revel in our mutable, messy, multitudinous selves.
You tell me we are made of seven billion billion billion atoms. I can feel every one of them as I write this all down. It's a rush to feel that, like falling in love. Remembering is like falling in love with you, with us, again and again.
What makes us who we are? What stories do we inherit - and leave behind?
Faced with the prospect of losing her memory, a writer revisits the moments that changed her - from childhood to motherhood, loss and ill-health. Through shifting pronouns and perspectives, moving across place and time, each piece twists the kaleidoscope of existence to make sense of the present through the past. From the opening battle between her brain and her body, a conversation emerges between her collection of selves: the Daughter, the Sister, the Dancer, the Gardener, the Mother, the Girl-Who-Read-Woolf. Reliving her journey of becoming, she unpicks the fabric of fact and experience to stitch a new tapestry of personhood, both real and imaginary, mundane and profound.
All of Us Atoms offers a tender portrait of the tension between our drive to make sense of things and the freedom that comes from throwing categories away. It heralds the arrival of a major new literary voice, urging us to reframe and reclaim our own stories and revel in our mutable, messy, multitudinous selves.
Holly Dawson is a writer, editor and teacher. She has written for the Guardian, Observer and BBC, and is Reader-in-Residence at Charleston, where she gets to indulge her passion for modernist literature. Her acclaimed plays, drawing on letters and diaries to bring to life figures such as Virginia Woolf and F Scott Fitzgerald in their own words, have been performed by actors including Helena Bonham Carter, James Norton, Miranda Richardson and Jonathan Pryce. Having grown up in Cornwall, she now lives in rural Sussex with far too many hens.
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| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2025 |
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| Genre: | Biographien, Importe |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Buch |
| Reihe: | Canongate Books |
| ISBN-13: | 9781805301479 |
| ISBN-10: | 1805301470 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Gebunden |
| Autor: | Dawson, Holly |
| Hersteller: | Canongate Books |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | BGC Sustainability & Compliance, 7 Avenue Du General Leclerc, F-75014 Paris, gpsr@baldwinglobalconsulting.com |
| Maße: | 219 x 146 x 32 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Holly Dawson |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 04.07.2025 |
| Gewicht: | 0,404 kg |
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