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Availability:In StockContributor:Kate BriggsPublish date:2023-10-03Pages:448
Language:EnglishPublisher:Dorothy a Publishing ProjectISBN-13:9781948980210ISBN-10:1948980215UPC:9781948980210Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, Women, Family LifeBook Topic:Europe (General)Size:7.00 x 5.50 x 1.40 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCZGQJ87PP
From the award-winning author of the book-length essay This Little Art, a debut novel that reaches back to the start of the novel tradition and outward to the complexities of contemporary life.

Kate Brigg's debut novel--the follow-up to her acclaimed This Little Art--is the story of a young mother, Helen, awake with her baby. Together they are moving through a morning routine that is in one sense entirely ordinary--resting, feeding, pacing. Yet in the closeness of their rented flat, such everyday acts take on epic scope, thoughts and objects made newly alive in the light of their shared attention. Then the rhythm of their morning is interrupted: a delivery person arrives with a used copy of Fielding's The History of Tom Jones, which Helen has ordered online. She begins to read, and attention shifts. As their day unfolds, the intimate space Helen shares with her baby becomes entwined with Fielding's novel, with other books and ideas, and with questions about class and privilege, housing and caregiving, and the support structures that underlie durational forms of codependency, both social and artistic.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Dorothy a Publishing ProjectISBN-13:9781948980210ISBN-10:1948980215UPC:9781948980210Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, Women, Family LifeBook Topic:Europe (General)Size:7.00 x 5.50 x 1.40 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCZGQJ87PP
Winner of a 2021 Windham-Campbell Prize, Kate Briggs is the author of the acclaimed genre-bending essay on translation, This Little Art, and has translated two volumes of Roland Barthes's lecture and seminar notes at the Collège de France: The Preparation of the Novel and How to Live Together, both published by Columbia University Press. She teaches at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam.
Publisher: Dorothy a Publishing Project

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