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Make It Scream, Make It Burn by Leslie Jamison
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
From the author of The Empathy Exams comes a profound meditation on isolation, longing and the conflicts faced by all those who choose to tell true stories about the lives of others
Make It Scream, Make It Burn by Leslie Jamison
$32.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
From the author of The Empathy Exams comes a profound meditation on isolation, longing and the conflicts faced by all those who choose to tell true stories about the lives of others.
Recovering Intoxication & Its Aftermath by Leslie Jamison
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Category: Biography & Memoir
With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and reportage, The Recovering turns our understanding of the traditional addiction narrative on its head, demonstrating that the story of recovery can be every bit as electrifying as the train wreck itself. Les ...Show more
Splinters: A Memoir by Leslie Jamison
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Category: Biography & Memoir
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveting story of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage - an exploration of motherhood, art and new love. In this blend of memoir and criticism, Leslie Jamison turns her attention to some of the most int ...Show more
The Best American Essays 2017 by Leslie Jamison
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Best American
"They do what the essay form arguably does best: engaging the personal in order to reach larger themes . . . The essay form forces authors to take measure of themselves, and allows the reader to do so as well." --Publishers Weekly The best-selling essayist Leslie Jamison picks the best essays from hundr ...Show more
The Empathy Exams : Essays by Leslie Jamison
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014 Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students t ...Show more
The Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie Jamison
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
The subjects of this stylish and audacious collection of essays range from an assault in Nicaragua to a Morgellons meeting; from Frida Kahlo's plaster casts to a gangland tour of LA. Jamison is interested in how we tell stories about injury and pain, and the limits that circumstances, bodies and identit ...Show more
The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath by Leslie Jamison
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Category: New Hardbacks
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"An astounding triumph . . . Profound . . . Achingly wise . . . A recovery memoir like no other." --Entertainment Weekly (A)"Riveting . . . Beautifully told." --Boston Globe"An honest and important book . . . Vivid writing and required reading." --Stephen King"Perceptive ...Show more
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