Bluets: AS SEEN ON BBC2’S BETWEEN THE COVERS - Hardcover

Nelson, Maggie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1911214527 ISBN 13: 9781911214526

Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 2017

Synopsis

Bluets

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About the Author

Maggie Nelson is a poet, critic and the author of five books of non-fiction. Her books include The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial, The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (a New York Times Editor's Choice) and The Argonauts (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award), as well as four collections of poetry. In 2016 she was awarded the MacArthur Genius fellowship. She currently lives in Los Angeles.

Review

"Transcendent.... very inspiring. She's an amazing writer." -- Lorde * Irish Times * "Maggie Nelson... She's so much better than anything I've read for a long, long time." -- Karl Ove Knausgaard "I remember where I was when I read each of Maggie Nelson's books in the same way I remember a place where I heard important news. Her words come, as though from a great distance, and strike incredibly close. I did not actually read Bluets, I think - I just let it hit me." -- Anne Enright "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 "[Nelson's] candour, also evident in The Argonauts, gives Bluets a turbo-charged vitality, precision and authenticity that frees her to reflect on the way female desire is too often sidelined or ignored.... In her dark excavation of grief, she has collected messages of great wisdom and powerful beauty." -- Gavin Francis * Guardian * "A gorgeous, eddying read." -- Claire-Louise Bennett "Nelson... looks sideways at her heartbreak, allowing for moments of piercing clarity as feelings come into focus. There is wisdom and beauty in this short work." -- Fiona Wilson * The Times * "A luminous meditation on the author's love for a single colour that displaces itself onto the grief prompted by the end of a relationship and the serious injury of a friend." -- Jenny Hendrix * Times Literary Supplement * "Arty, smart and gorgeous meditation on the color blue." * Time Out * "Bluets is a slim but intense volume dedicated to the colour blue, and to feeling blue. Nelson takes a Wittgensteinian form and fills it with feeling. In 240 loosely linked fragments she moves between memoir and analysis, from spiritual inquiry to erotic obsession... Beautiful." -- Tom Graham * Financial Times * "A real short-sharp punch in the heart. Truly sad and beautiful, it's a raw meditation on falling passionately in love with a colour." * Big Issue * "What could be more invented than a life story that reads like a novel? Bluets doesn't invent that way: its inventions are wilder, wiser (and more true) than that... each proposition is breathtaking." * Brick * "A syncopated arrangement of 240 prose poems collected across three years of slowly dwindling grief and heartbreak, it centres around the colour blue and how it helped to heal Nelson's pain." -- Isobel Thompson * A-List * "This discussion of the colour blue is a gorgeous read, almost religious in the way it defaults to the beautiful and the sublime." -- Anne Enright * Guardian * "When I want a sprawling, consuming book about love and loss, I turn to Maggie Nelson's Bluets. The compact hybrid book of literature, memoir, and poetry at only 99 pages in length lingers long after the cover is turned over." -- Sarah MacDonald * Vice * "I can't stop thinking about [Bluets]." -- Darci Phenix

Edition details

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1911214527
• ISBN 13: 9781911214526
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 112