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Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write

Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write An Autobiography Through Essays

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Publisher's Synopsis

'An uplifting work: complex, precise and bracing' Susie Boyt, Financial Times

'A profound book about the intrication of literature and life, about the modest, miraculous ways art helps us to live' Garth Greenwell

In twenty-nine intimate, brilliant and funny essays, Claire Messud reflects on a childhood move from her Connecticut home to Australia; the complex relationship between her modern Canadian mother and a fiercely single French Catholic aunt; and a trip to Beirut, where her pied-noir father had once lived, while he was dying. She meditates on contemporary classics from Kazuo Ishiguro, Teju Cole, Rachel Cusk and Valeria Luiselli; examines three facets of Albert Camus and The Stranger; and tours her favorite paintings at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. Crafting a vivid portrait of a life in celebration of the power of literature, Messud proves once again 'an absolute master storyteller' (Rebecca Carroll, Los Angeles Times).

'I can think of few writers capable of such thrilling seriousness expressed with so lavish a gift' Rachel Cusk, Evening Standard

About the Publisher

Fleet

Little, Brown is the literary hardback imprint that feeds into our Abacus paperback list. We publish across a wide range of areas, including fiction, history, memoir, science and travel, but within this diverse list the vast majority of books have in common a strong narrative and a distinctive voice.

Book information

ISBN: 9780349726564
Publisher: Little, Brown
Imprint: Fleet
Pub date:
DEWEY: 813.6
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 256
Weight: 258g
Height: 126mm
Width: 196mm
Spine width: 34mm