{"product_id":"be-with-me-always-9781496205049","title":"Be with Me Always","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA collection of essays that explore hauntedness by considering how the ghosts of our pasts cling to us. In a way all good essays are about the things that haunt us until we have embraced or understood them. Here, Noble considers the ways she has been haunted in essays both pleasant and bitter, traditional and lyrical, evocative and unforgettable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A motley collection of pieces. . . . Essayist Noble has a focused, tight style, often employing the technique of looking at somewhat discrete items (or memories) and seeking connections among them. . . . Unique eyes look at familiar things and somehow make them seem both odder and more familiar.\"—\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBe With Me Always\u003c\/i\u003e works its magic in profound, subtle, seamless ways. The meticulous craftsmanship in the construction of these essays is equally matched by Noble's beautiful, confident, assured vision.\"—Christopher John Stephens, \u003ci\u003ePop Matters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBe with Me Always \u003c\/i\u003ehas much to teach its readers about longing, experimental writing, and the fruits of reading extensively. This collection is sure to be taught in writing classes far and wide. Noble teaches us the truths of the flaneur, to be a good outsider and essayist: It is important to watch and to try, to think and to create.\"—Gretchen Lida, \u003ci\u003ePunctuate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The twenty-six essays in Noble's collection confront hauntings on a personal and literary scale. Famous figures of history and culture interweave with experiences that span Noble's girlhood to present day. She wrangles with the complexities of love, ambition, identity, rejection, legacy, and parenthood. At heart is the question of who's doing the haunting? Do we haunt ourselves? Why would we do that? . . . Noble powerfully reminds us that hauntings spring from the same desire that propels enduring essays, the desire to live an examined life.\"—Magin LaSov Gregg, \u003ci\u003eBrevity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Like a girl, perfumed, attempting to become a flower, Noble's essays try to become the things they describe; her work reminds us of the labor, and the ingenuity, needed to thoroughly examine a life. . . . \u003ci\u003eBe With Me Always \u003c\/i\u003ewill read like a best friend who understands you and your love of the quick, compressed, and strange.\"—Amy V. Blakemore, \u003ci\u003eBarrelhouse Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Noble gives us essays that elevate the rawness of real life with an overarching theme of hauntedness. From hard choices to characters in classic literature, from a near-death experience to past lovers, she has written a book that appeals to readers of both modern pop culture magazines and Emily Brontë.\"—Hannah Grieco, \u003ci\u003eWashington City Paper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The essays in Randon Billings Noble's dazzlingly honest debut collection explore the varied hauntings that linger through the years and even centuries of human action.\"—Kari Hanlin, \u003ci\u003eMid-American Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Noble and her collection are fascinating companions indeed.\"—Katy Major, \u003ci\u003eRiver Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBe with Me Always\u003c\/i\u003e leaves ample room to breathe and stretch—both heart and mind.\"—Brandel France de Bravo, \u003ci\u003eSalamander\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In her brilliant collection \u003ci\u003eBe with Me Always\u003c\/i\u003e, Randon Billings Noble explores the frailty of romance, of the human body, and of us all, with startling honesty, admirable ingenuity, genuine insight, and, always, with energy and surprise.”—Dinty W. Moore, author of \u003ci\u003eBetween Panic and Desire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI. Whatever Bed\u003cbr\u003e The Split\u003cbr\u003e Mirror Glimpses\u003cbr\u003e Elegy for Dracula\u003cbr\u003e Ambush\u003cbr\u003e II. Shadows and Markings\u003cbr\u003e The Shadow of the Hours\u003cbr\u003e Leaving the Island\u003cbr\u003e Behind the Caves\u003cbr\u003e Marked\u003cbr\u003e III. Biologies\u003cbr\u003e The Heart as a Torn Muscle\u003cbr\u003e A Pill to Cure Love\u003cbr\u003e What of the Raven, What of the Dove?\u003cbr\u003e Assemblage\u003cbr\u003e Vertebrae\u003cbr\u003e IV. The Voice at the Window\u003cbr\u003e Yet Another Day at the Jersey Shore\u003cbr\u003e The Sparkling Future\u003cbr\u003e Widow Fantasies\u003cbr\u003e Striking\u003cbr\u003e V. On Looking\u003cbr\u003e On Looking\u003cbr\u003e The Ownership of Memory\u003cbr\u003e The Island of Topaz\u003cbr\u003e Shells\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCamouflet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e VI. The Red Thread\u003cbr\u003e Knots\u003cbr\u003e 69 Inches of Thread, Scarlet and Otherwise\u003cbr\u003e On Silence\u003cbr\u003e Devotional\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409219002711,"sku":"9781496205049","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496205049.jpg?v=1730505994","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/be-with-me-always-9781496205049","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}