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A Certain Slant of Light

Duncan White

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Description: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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Certain Slant of Light. To get started finding A Certain Slant of Light, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 230

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Holland House Books

Release: 2021

ISBN: 1910688975

Description: 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Certain Slant of Light. To get started finding A Certain Slant of Light, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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