Constellations : reflections from life / Sinéad Gleeson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gleeson, Sinéad, author.

Contributor:

J. Bertram Lippincott Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gleeson, Sinéad.

Women--Ireland--Biography.

Women.

Women journalists.

Ireland.

Women journalists--Ireland--Biography.

Mothers.

Medical Subjects:

Mothers.

Women.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

244 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Picador, 2019.

Summary:

I have come to think of all the metal in my body as artificial stars, glistening beneath the skin, a constellation of old and new metal. A map, a tracing of connections and a guide to looking at things from different angles. How do you tell the story of a life in a body, as it goes through sickness, health, motherhood? How do you tell that story when you are not just a woman but a woman in Ireland? In the powerful and daring essays in Constellations Sinéad Gleeson does that very thing. All of life is within these pages, from birth to first love, pregnancy to motherhood, terrifying sickness, old age and loss to death itself. Throughout this wide-ranging collection she also turns her restless eye outwards delving into work, art and our very ways of seeing. In the tradition of some of our finest life writers, and yet still in her own spirited, generous voice, Sinéad takes us on a journey that is both uniquely personal and yet universal in its resonance. Here is the fierce joy and pain of being alive.

Contents:

Blue hills and chalk bones

Hair

60,000 miles of blood

Our mutual friend

On the atomic nature of trimesters

Panopticon : hospital vision

The moons of motherhood

The haunted haunting women

Where does it hurt? : twenty stories based on the McGill pain index

A wound gives off it's own light

The adventure narrative

Twelve stories of bodily autonomy : (for the twelve women a day who leave)

Second mother

A non-letter to my daughter : (named for a warrior queen).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the J. Bertram Lippincott Library Fund.

ISBN:

9781509892730

1509892737

1509892753

9781509892754

OCLC:

1085141347

Publisher Number:

99985014136