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A Certain Slant of Light

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After the death of his child, a man – disconnected, lost, unable to sleep – explores the absence at the heart of life.

Gathering accounts of trauma and loss from the lives of people and places, past and present: of Isadora Duncan, Ana Mendietta, WG Sebald and Pier Paolo Pasolini; of a car crash, a fall from a skyscraper, the photographs of a murderer, a journey to The Gate of the Kiss; he travels through a landscape of half-remembered events and lost works of art, attempting to fathom lives pieced together from borrowed and fragmentary stories of history, memory and existence; trying to recover his own life.

Part fiction, part essay, part meditation on absence and grief, A Certain Slant of Light is a profound and moving attempt to trace the connections, however unlikely and strange, between art, history and life.

A unique and beautiful book, profusely illustrated, A Certain Slant of Light was shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo Prize.

Language: English

Pages: 230

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Holland House Books

Release: September 16, 2021

ISBN 13: 9781910688977

A Certain Slant of Light

0/5 ( ratings)

After the death of his child, a man – disconnected, lost, unable to sleep – explores the absence at the heart of life.

Gathering accounts of trauma and loss from the lives of people and places, past and present: of Isadora Duncan, Ana Mendietta, WG Sebald and Pier Paolo Pasolini; of a car crash, a fall from a skyscraper, the photographs of a murderer, a journey to The Gate of the Kiss; he travels through a landscape of half-remembered events and lost works of art, attempting to fathom lives pieced together from borrowed and fragmentary stories of history, memory and existence; trying to recover his own life.

Part fiction, part essay, part meditation on absence and grief, A Certain Slant of Light is a profound and moving attempt to trace the connections, however unlikely and strange, between art, history and life.

A unique and beautiful book, profusely illustrated, A Certain Slant of Light was shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo Prize.

Language: English

Pages: 230

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Holland House Books

Release: September 16, 2021

ISBN 13: 9781910688977

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