Jenn Shapland
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"From a National Book Award finalist and a powerful literary mind, an incisive new work examining capitalism's toxic creep into the land, our bodies, and our thinking. When she receives a dermatological diagnosis of extreme sensitivity -- thin skin -- Jenn Shapland considers just how thin the barrier is between herself and the world, and how deeply vulnerable we all are to our surroundings. As she becomes aware of the impacts her tiniest choices have...
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¿Cómo cuentas la historia real de alguien olvidado -un auténtico icono, un ídolo- junto a la tuya?
Mi autobiografía de Carson McCullers de Jenn Shapland es a la vez una exploración inmersiva y sorprendente en la vida y obra de una de las escritoras más queridas y respetadas de Estados Unidos y un análisis de la identidad más allá de las normas de género, la memoria y el amor.
Siendo una estudiante de posgrado, Shapland descubre una serie...
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xv, 266 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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"While working as an intern in the archives at the Harry Ransom Center, Jenn Shapland encounters the love letters of Carson McCullers and a woman named Annemarie - letters that are tender, intimate, and unabashed in their feelings. Shapland recognizes herself in the letters' language - but does not see McCullers as history has portrayed her. And so, Shapland is compelled to undertake a recovery of the full narrative and language of McCullers's life:...