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Constellations : reflections from life / Sinéad Gleeson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston : Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2019]Edition: First U.S. editionDescription: 244 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780358272625
  • 0358272629
  • 9780358213031
  • 0358213037
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Blue Hills and Chalk Bones -- Hair -- Our Mutual Friend -- 60,000 Miles of Blood -- On the Atomic Nature of Trimesters -- Panopticon: Hospital Visions -- The Moons of Motherhood -- The Haunted Haunting Women -- Where Does It Hurt? : Twenty stories based on the McGill pain index -- A Wound Gives Off Its Own Light -- The Adventure Narrative -- Twelve Stories of Bodily Autonomy (for the twelve women a day who leave) -- Second Mother -- A Non-Letter to My Daughter (named for a warrior queen)
Summary: "For fans of Maggie Nelson and Leslie Jamison, Sinéad Gleeson's essays chronicle-in crystalline, tender, powerful prose-life in a body, as it goes through sickness, health, motherhood, and love of all kinds"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Biography Gleeson, S. G555 Available 33111009640596
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"For fans of Maggie Nelson and Leslie Jamison, Sinéad Gleeson's essays chronicle-in crystalline, tender, powerful prose-life in a body, as it goes through sickness, health, motherhood, and love of all kinds"--

"First published in the United Kingdom by Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, in 2019" -- Verso title page.

Blue Hills and Chalk Bones -- Hair -- Our Mutual Friend -- 60,000 Miles of Blood -- On the Atomic Nature of Trimesters -- Panopticon: Hospital Visions -- The Moons of Motherhood -- The Haunted Haunting Women -- Where Does It Hurt? : Twenty stories based on the McGill pain index -- A Wound Gives Off Its Own Light -- The Adventure Narrative -- Twelve Stories of Bodily Autonomy (for the twelve women a day who leave) -- Second Mother -- A Non-Letter to My Daughter (named for a warrior queen)

"For fans of Maggie Nelson and Leslie Jamison, Sinéad Gleeson's essays chronicle-in crystalline, tender, powerful prose-life in a body, as it goes through sickness, health, motherhood, and love of all kinds"-- Provided by publisher.

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