Ongoingness The End Of A Diary

Author: Sarah Manguso

Stock information

General Fields

  • : $20.00 AUD
  • : 9781509883295
  • : Pan Macmillan
  • : Picador
  • :
  • : 0.204
  • : June 2018
  • : 19.99
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Sarah Manguso
  • :
  • : Hardback
  • : 1
  • :
  • : English
  • : 96
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • :
Barcode 9781509883295
9781509883295

Description

'This small-sized book has immense power. Marvel at the clarity and fire.' Zadie SmithSarah Manguso kept a meticulous diary for twenty-five years. 'I wanted to end each day with a record of everything that had ever happened,' she explains. But this simple statement belies a terror that she might forget something, that she might miss something important. Maintaining that diary, of eight hundred thousand words, became a daily attempt to remember, to fix the passage of time. Then Manguso became pregnant and had a child, and these two events caused a monumental shift that changed her relationship to time and to mortality, and also to her diary. Ongoingness is a beautiful, daring, honest and shifting work that grapples with writing, motherhood and time.