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Second Chance: My Life in Things

Second Chance: My Life in Things

Rosengarten, Ruth

Hardcover

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ISBN10: 1800643756
ISBN13: 9781800643758
Publisher: Open Book Publ S
Published: Jun 28 2022
Pages: 294
Weight: 1.62
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

In this intimate memoir, Ruth Rosengarten explores the subject of evocative objects through a series of interconnected essays.


Evocative objects reflect our attitudes to our own lives and how we seek to display ourselves to ourselves. They are therefore, closely linked to our memories, and how we filter, process and reconstruct them. Rosengarten explores the themes and associations invoked by her own evocative objects, which are frequently shabby things of no material value. They are, importantly, often objects that, in their materiality, bear traces of actions, of something-having-been. Through the associative pathways that these objects have paved, she discusses her experiences with the losses she has undergone, her family's migrations, and what it means to be a childless woman. This leads her to address the question of what will become of her storied objects and the memories attached to them when she is no longer in existence.

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