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A Horse at Night: On Writing

A Horse at Night: On Writing

Cain, Amina

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Literary Criticism

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 1948980134
ISBN13: 9781948980135
Publisher: Dorothy A Pub Project
Published: Oct 11 2022
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.60 Depth: 7.00
Language: English
A Horse at Night is like light from a candle in the evening: intimate, pleasurable, full of wonder. It asks us to consider fiction as life and life as fiction. Amina Cain is our generous, gentle guide through an exquisite library. A truly beautiful book. --Ayşegül Savaş

I adore her work, and sensibility, writes Claire-Louise Bennett of Amina Cain; and Jenny Offill: Cain writes beautiful precise sentences about what it means to wander through this luminous world. Cain's unique wandering sensibility, her attention to the small and the surprising, finds a profound new expression in her first nonfiction book, a sustained meditation on writers and their work. Driven by primary questions of authenticity and freedom in the shadow of ecological and social collapse, Cain moves associatively through a personal canon of authors-- including Marguerite Duras, Elena Ferrante, Renee Gladman, and Virginia Woolf-- and topics as timely and various as female friendships, zazen meditation, neighborhood coyotes, landscape painting, book titles, and the politics of excess. A Horse at Night: On Writing is an intimate reckoning with the contemporary moment, and a quietly brilliant contribution to the lineage of Woolf's A Room of One's Own or Gass's On Being Blue, books that are virtuosic arguments for--and beautiful demonstrations of--the essential unity of writing and life.

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