{"product_id":"aurelia-aurelia-a-memoir-paperback","title":"Aurelia, Aurélia: A Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKathryn Davis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn eerily dreamlike memoir, and the first work of nonfiction by one of our most inventive novelists.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAurelia, Aurélia\u003c\/i\u003e begins on a boat. The author, sixteen years old, is traveling to Europe at an age when one can \"try on personae like dresses.\" She has the confidence of a teenager cultivating her earliest obsessions--Woolf, Durrell, Bergman--sure of her maturity, sure of the life that awaits her. Soon she finds herself in a Greece far drearier than the Greece of fantasy, \"climbing up and down the steep paths every morning with the real old women, looking for kindling.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKathryn Davis's hypnotic new book is a meditation on the way imagination shapes life, and how life, as it moves forward, shapes imagination. At its center is the death of her husband, Eric. The book unfolds as a study of their marriage, its deep joys and stinging frustrations; it is also a book about time, the inexorable events that determine beginnings and endings. The preoccupations that mark Davis's fiction are recognizable here--fateful voyages, an intense sense of place, the unexpected union of the magical and the real--but the vehicle itself is utterly new. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAurelia, Aurélia \u003c\/i\u003eexplodes the conventional bounds of memoir. It is an astonishing accomplishment.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.1 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767529079072,"sku":"9781644450789","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/36d141bcc5e7de538c80d1a28df26f21.webp?v=1780312684","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/aurelia-aurelia-a-memoir-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}