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Make it scream, make it burn : essays / Leslie Jamison.
Van Pelt Library PS3610.A485 A6 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jamison, Leslie, 1983- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Essays. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American essays--21st century.
- American essays.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 257 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019.
- Summary:
- With the virtuosic synthesis of memoir, criticism, and journalism for which she has become known, Jamison offers 14 new essays that are by turns ecstatic, searching, staggering, and wise.
- With the virtuosic synthesis of memoir, criticism, and journalism for which Leslie Jamison has been so widely acclaimed, the fourteen essays in Make It Scream, Make It Burn explore the oceanic depths of longing and the reverberations of obsession. Among Jamison's subjects are 52 Blue, deemed "the loneliest whale in the world"; the eerie past-life memories of children; the devoted citizens of an online world called Second Life; the haunted landscape of the Sri Lankan Civil War; and an entire museum dedicated to the relics of broken relationships. Jamison follows these examinations to more personal reckonings -- with elusive men and ruptured romances, with marriage and maternity -- in essays about eloping in Las Vegas, becoming a stepmother, and giving birth.
- Contents:
- 52 blue
- We tell ourselves stories in order to live again
- Layover story
- Sim life
- Up in Jaffna
- No tongue can tell
- Make it scream, make it burn
- Maximum exposure
- Rehearsals
- The long trick
- The real smoke
- Daughter of a ghost
- Museum of broken hearts
- The quickening.
- Contains:
- Jamison, Leslie, 1983- 52 blue.
- Jamison, Leslie, 1983- We tell ourselves stories in order to live again.
- Jamison, Leslie, 1983- Layover story.
- Jamison, Leslie, 1983- Sim life.
- Jamison, Leslie, 1983- Up in Jaffna.
- Jamison, Leslie, 1983- No tongue can tell.
- Jamison, Leslie, 1983- Maximum exposure.
- Jamison, Leslie, 1983- Rehearsals.
- Jamison, Leslie, 1983- Long trick.
- Jamison, Leslie, 1983- Real smoke.
- ISBN:
- 9780316259637
- 0316259632
- OCLC:
- 1117773672
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