Bluets: AS SEEN ON BBC2'S BETWEEN THE COVERS
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Bluets: AS SEEN ON BBC2'S BETWEEN THE COVERS
Bluets: AS SEEN ON BBC2'S BETWEEN THE COVERS

Bluets: AS SEEN ON BBC2'S BETWEEN THE COVERS

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Maggie Nelson (Author)  

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**AS SEEN ON BBC2's BETWEEN THE COVERS** A Guardian Book of the Year Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation - Olivia Laing Bluets winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with famous blue figures, including Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Yves Klein, Leonard Cohen and Andy Warhol. While its narrator sets out to construct a sort of 'pillow book' about her lifelong obsession with the colour blue, she ends up facing down both the painful end of an affair and the grievous injury of a dear friend. The combination produces a raw, cerebral work devoted to the inextricability of pleasure and pain, and to the question of what role, if any, aesthetic beauty can play in times of great heartache or grief. Much like Roland Barthes's A Lover's Discourse, Bluets has passed between lovers in the ecstasy of new love, and been pressed into the hands of the heartbroken. Visceral, learned, and acutely lucid, Bluets is a slim feat of literary innovation and grace, never before published in the UK.
Maggie Nelson is the author of several books of poetry and prose, including the New York Times bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award winner The Argonauts, and most recently in the UK, Bluets. She teaches at University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles.
  • Contributor: Maggie Nelson
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape Ltd
  • ISBN13: 9781911214526
  • Number of Pages: 112
  • Packaged Dimensions: 138x204x16mm
  • Packaged Weight: 210
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Release Date: 2017-06-01
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Maggie Nelson is the author of several books of poetry and prose, including the New York Times bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award winner The Argonauts, and most recently in the UK, Bluets. She teaches at University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles.

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