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Winner of Scotland's Non-Fiction Book of the Year

A memoir about thinking and reading, eating and denying your body food, about the relationships that form us and the long tentacles of childhood.

'Extraordinary . . . Moss is a towering figure in the contemporary literary landscape' - The Daily Telegraph

'Devastating, funny . . . a brave and important book' - Melissa Harrison
'Full of daring . . . revelatory' - The Observer

'An observational masterpiece' - The i

In the household of Sarah Moss's childhood she learnt that the female body and mind were battlegrounds. 1970s austerity and second-wave feminism came together: she must keep herself slim but never be vain, she must be intelligent but never angry. Clever girls should be ambitious but women must restrain themselves. Women had to stay small.

Years later, her self-control had become dangerous, and Sarah found herself in A&E. The return of her teenage anorexia had become a medical emergency, forcing her to reckon with all that she had denied her hard-working body and furiously turning mind.

My Good Bright Wolf navigates contested memories of girlhood, the chorus of relentless and controlling voices that dogged Sarah's every thought, and the writing and books in which she could run free. Beautiful, audacious, moving and very funny, this memoir is a remarkable exercise in the way a brain turns on itself, and then finds a way out.

From Sarah Moss, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Summerwater, My Good Bright Wolf is a memoir like no other.

'Compulsive and compelling' - Emilie Pine

'Confronts what it means to be a woman trying to find a way to be' - Jan Carson

'Moss writes so compassionately about human frailty while her own work is as close to perfect as a novelist's can be' - The Times

Winner of Scotland's Non-Fiction Book of the Year

A memoir about thinking and reading, eating and denying your body food, about the relationships that form us and the long tentacles of childhood.

'Extraordinary . . . Moss is a towering figure in the contemporary literary landscape' - The Daily Telegraph

'Devastating, funny . . . a brave and important book' - Melissa Harrison
'Full of daring . . . revelatory' - The Observer

'An observational masterpiece' - The i

In the household of Sarah Moss's childhood she learnt that the female body and mind were battlegrounds. 1970s austerity and second-wave feminism came together: she must keep herself slim but never be vain, she must be intelligent but never angry. Clever girls should be ambitious but women must restrain themselves. Women had to stay small.

Years later, her self-control had become dangerous, and Sarah found herself in A&E. The return of her teenage anorexia had become a medical emergency, forcing her to reckon with all that she had denied her hard-working body and furiously turning mind.

My Good Bright Wolf navigates contested memories of girlhood, the chorus of relentless and controlling voices that dogged Sarah's every thought, and the writing and books in which she could run free. Beautiful, audacious, moving and very funny, this memoir is a remarkable exercise in the way a brain turns on itself, and then finds a way out.

From Sarah Moss, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Summerwater, My Good Bright Wolf is a memoir like no other.

'Compulsive and compelling' - Emilie Pine

'Confronts what it means to be a woman trying to find a way to be' - Jan Carson

'Moss writes so compassionately about human frailty while her own work is as close to perfect as a novelist's can be' - The Times

Über den Autor

Sarah Moss is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at University College Dublin's School of English, Drama and Film in the Republic of Ireland. She has published six novels as well as a number of non-fiction works. Her work has been nominated three times for the Wellcome Book Prize., Sarah Moss is the author of several novels and a memoir of her year living in Iceland, Names for the Sea, shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize. Her novels are Summerwater, Cold Earth, Night Waking, Bodies of Light (shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize), Signs for Lost Children (shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize), The Tidal Zone (shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize) and Ghost Wall, which was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2019.

Sarah was born in Glasgow and grew up in the north of England. After moving between Oxford, Canterbury, Reykjavik and West Cornwall, she now lives in the Midlands and is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Warwick.

Details
Empfohlen (von): 18
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Biographien, Importe
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 320 S.
ISBN-13: 9781035035823
ISBN-10: 1035035820
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Moss, Sarah
Hersteller: Pan Macmillan
Picador
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 194 x 128 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Sarah Moss
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.04.2025
Gewicht: 0,222 kg
Artikel-ID: 131907585

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