The genre-defying, thought-stirring memoir about America's obsession with violence, from the critically acclaimed author of The Argonauts
Maggie Nelson is the author of several books of prose and poetry including The Red Parts, Bluets, the National Book Critics Circle Award-winner The Argonauts, On Freedom, Like Love and, most recently, Pathemata. She teaches at the University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles.
A harrowing but clear-eyed examination of crime's emotional
fallout
*David Nicholls*
Maggie Nelson’s short, singular books feel pretty light in the
hand... But in the head and the heart, they seem unfathomably vast,
their cleverness and odd beauty lingering on...her work is
blazingly intimate
*Observer*
Powerful and searingly honest
*Guardian*
Remarkable. I'm still reeling from its exhilarating brilliance
*Claire-Louise Bennett*
A book-long riff on the first-person essay that Joan Didion
built... Nelson eschews tidy resolution. She argues that stories
are by nature imperfect – and yet she also shows us how they can
become totally worthwhile
*Time Out*
In writing The Red Parts, Nelson has made her own box holding the
fragments of many things. It’s not a beautiful object, but a
valuable, coolly shimmering one, which captures the raw
bewilderment that can affect a family for generations after a
violent loss
*San Francisco Chronicle*
There is something daring in the intimacy of Nelson’s work... Her
books, five works of nonfiction and four books of poetry, are light
in your hands but heavy and powerful in all the nonliteral
senses
*New York Magazine*
Nelson balances starkness with sensitivity and salvages beauty from
trauma, while also perverting every strong statement – arguing,
softly, against absolutes in general and her own convictions in
particular…uncertainty and vulnerability are what is so special
about Nelson’s writing... The result is a victim impact statement
as complex and perplexing as the case itself… By bouncing
everything through the prism of her strong relations; by refusing
to be intimidated by originality, Nelson is a true original
*Irish Times*
Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in
America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her
generation
*Guardian*
Nelson is candid, funny and – for many years a poet – has a talent
for compression and juxtaposition that makes for an enthralling use
of language
*Guardian*
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