My work / Olga Ravn ; translated from the Danish by Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russell.
Material type:
TextLanguage: English Original language: Danish Publisher: New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Edition: First editionDescription: 391 pages ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780811234719
- 0811234711
- Mit arbejde. English
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book
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Main Library | Fiction | In Case You Missed It | RAVN, OLGA | ICYMI: Recently New | Available | 33111011221971 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
After giving birth, Anna is utterly lost. She and her family move to the unfamiliar, snowy city of Stockholm. Anxiety threatens to completely engulf Anna, who obsessively devours online news and compulsively orders clothes she can't afford. To avoid sinking deeper into her depression, she forces herself to read and write.
My Work is a novel about the unique and fundamental experience of giving birth, mixing different literary forms--fiction, essay, poetry, memoir, and letters--to explore the relationship between motherhood, work, individuality, and literature."Olga Ravn writes dazzlingly about the work of motherhood and the work of writing. Reading Ravn's book, you run through the whole gamut of human emotion, as though you too were a new mother: tears, laughter, anger, fear, pain, frustration. This is powerful writing that's hard to put down."--Politiken
"A New Directions Paperbook Original."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-390).
"After giving birth, Anna is utterly lost. She and her family move to the unfamiliar, snowy city of Stockholm. Anxiety threatens to completely engulf the new mother, who obsessively devours online news and compulsively buys clothes she can't afford. To avoid sinking deeper into her depression, Anna forces herself to read and write. My Work is a novel about the unique and fundamental experience of giving birth, mixing different literary forms--fiction, essay, poetry, memoir, and letters--to explore the relationship between motherhood, work, individuality, and literature"-- Provided by publisher
"Copyright ©2020 by Olga Ravn & Gyldendal, Copenhagen. Translation copyright ©2023 by Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russell"--Title page verso