{"product_id":"my-autobiography-of-carson-mccullers-9780349015682","title":"My Autobiography of Carson McCullers","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Fascinating and intimate'' \u003ci\u003eOBSERVER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Lucid, distilled, honest'' MAGGIE NELSON\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Gorgeous, symphonic, tender'' CARMEN MARIA MACHADO\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow do you tell the real story of someone misremembered - an icon and idol - alongside your own?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJenn Shapland''s celebrated debut is both question and answer: an immersive, surprising exploration of one of America''s most beloved writers, alongside a genre-defying examination of identity, queerness, memory and love. Interweaving her own story with McCullers'', Shapland shows us how the writers we love and the stories we tell about ourselves make us who we are.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A moving record of love at the margins'' \u003ci\u003eNEW YORKER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A call to arms to reappraise past lives'' \u003ci\u003eTHE TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWeaves together biography and memoir . . . \u003cb\u003eShards of the author's own life glitter amid the story of McCullers's \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003etriumphs and struggles\u003c\/b\u003e . . . A lively cast of walk-on characters includes Tennessee Williams, Elizabeth Bowen, Edith Sitwell and Robert Lowell . . . But it is Shapland's identification with her subject that energises the book . . . \u003cb\u003eOnly an accomplished writer could marshal this tricky material in order to enmesh two stories. The reader sees McCullers afresh in these pages\u003c\/b\u003e . . . The politics of female queerness are central to this book, and Shapland handles the subject adroidy. At the same time, \u003cb\u003ethis volume, which I admire and recommend without reservation, speaks clearly and universally of the human heart, and specifically of the human heart in conflict with itself \u003c\/b\u003e -- Sara Wheeler * Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003eThe truth about Carson McCullers, the great American gothic writer, is finally told . . . What makes this such an unusual work, far removed from conventional biography, is that it's as much Shapland's story as it is McCullers's. In the process of recasting McCullers, Shapland finds her own identity . . . \u003ci\u003eMy Autobiography of Carson McCullers \u003c\/i\u003eis the result: \u003cb\u003eimpeccably young, modern and fresh, an assertion of lesbian liberation\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cb\u003e Political and at times polemical, it's a call to arms to reappraise past lives \u003c\/b\u003e. . . \u003cb\u003ebeautifully and sparsely written\u003c\/b\u003e -- Melanie Reid * The Times (Ireland) *\u003cbr\u003eA very interesting and innovative work * Irish Times *\u003cbr\u003eThe kind of state-of-the-form reckoning that makes one wish there were more like it * New York Times Book Review *\u003cbr\u003eWeird and un-categorisable (in a good way) * Guardian (Nonfiction to look out for in 2021) *\u003cbr\u003eIntelligent and invigorating . . . it is sharp-eyed and sensitive about biography as a form, and it is a vital piece of life-writing in its own right * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003eA fascinating and intimate examination of the work of archives, research and historic preservation as well as the arc of identity and social construction . . . [an] idiosyncratic and entirely winning book * Observer *\u003cbr\u003eA moving record of love at the margins * New Yorker *\u003cbr\u003eIn lucid, distilled, honest prose, Jenn Shapland teaches us about McCullers, the desire for recognition, loneliness, the complexities of queer history, the seductions and resistances of the archive and, all throughout, love -- Maggie Nelson","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733642883415,"sku":"9780349015682","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780349015682.jpg?v=1720000989","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/my-autobiography-of-carson-mccullers-9780349015682","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}