Blueberries (Paperback)

Ellena Savage

ISBN 10: 1922268569 / ISBN 13: 9781922268563

Published by Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2020

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Paperback. A stimulating combination of memoir, essay, poetry, confession and critique, Blueberries is a powerful and revealing collection from a rising star in Australian creative non-fiction.Sometimes I think it's possible to live with anything. That we're wired to survive-survive-survive, to grip onto the gnarliest thread until life is pried from our bones. Other times I think, it's not possible to live at all. Not at all.Blueberries could be described as a collection of essays, the closest term available for a book that resists classification: a blend of personal essay, polemic, prose poetry, true-crime journalism and confession that considers a fragmented life, reflecting on what it means to be a woman, a body, an artist. It is both a memoir and an interrogation of memoir. It is a new horizon in storytelling.In crystalline prose, Savage explores the essential questions of the examined life: what is it to desire? What is it to accommodate oneself to the world? And at what cost?'The most exciting work of creative non-fiction to be published in this country since Maria Tumarkin took up the pen.' Australian'Her voice is reassuringly droll, critical and warmly intimate. Savage has a poetic way of reminding us that crucial learning comes only with age-that time is finite.' Saturday Paper'In form and in content, Blueberries is exquisite.' Stella Prize Judges' Report A stimulating combination of memoir, essay, poetry, confession and critique, Blueberries is a powerful and revealing collection from a rising star in Australian creative non-fiction. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Blueberries (Paperback)
• Publisher: Text Publishing, Melbourne
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1922268569
• ISBN 13: 9781922268563
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Blueberries could be described as a collection of essays, the closest term available for a book that resists classification; a blend of personal essay, polemic, prose poetry, true-crime journalism and confession that considers a fragmented life, reflecting on what it means to be a woman, a body, and an artist. It is both a memoir and an interrogation of memoir. Drawing comparisons to Maggie Nelson, Leslie Jamison, Ada Calhoun and Eula Biss, this is a new horizon in storytelling. In crystalline prose, Savage explores the essential questions of the examined life: What is it to desire? What is it to accommodate oneself to the world? And at what cost?

About the Author

Ellena Savage is an author and academic. Her work has been publishing widely in anthologies and literary journals including, recently, the Paris Review Daily, Sydney Review of Books, Choice Words and Lifted Brow. Ellena is the recipient of several grants and prizes, including the 2019–21 Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship. In 2014 she attended the Tin House Summer Writers’ Workshop. She lives in Athens, Greece.