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003			OCoLC
005			20220414132118.0
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020			_a9780374604912 _q(hardcover)
020			_a0374604916 _q(hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)1289618386 _z(OCoLC)1289615262
042			_apcc
092			_a130 _bH943
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aHunt, Samantha, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe unwritten book : _ban investigation / _cSamantha Hunt.
250			_aFirst edition.
263			_a2204
264		1	_aNew York : _bFarrar, Straus and Giroux, _c2022.
300			_a366 pages : _billustrations ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 361-366).
520			_a"A genre-bending work of nonfiction, Samantha Hunt's The Unwritten Book explores ghosts, ghost stories, and haunting, in the broadest sense of each. What is it to be haunted, to be a ghost, to die, to live, to read? Books are ghosts; reading is communion with the dead. Alcohol is a way of communing, too, as well as a way of dying. Each chapter gathers subjects that haunt: dead people, the forest, the towering library of all those books we'll never have time to read or write. Hunt, like a mad crossword puzzler, looks for patterns and clues. Through literary criticism, history, family history, and memoir, inspired by W. G. Sebald, James Joyce, Ali Smith, Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, and many others, Hunt explores motherhood, hoarding, legacies of addiction, grief, how we insulate ourselves from the past, how we misinterpret the world. Nestled within her inquiry is a very special ghost book, an incomplete manuscript about people who can fly without wings, written by her father and found in his desk just days after he died. What secret messages might his work reveal? What wisdom might she distill from its unfinished pages? Hunt conveys a vivid and grateful life, one that comes from living closer to the dead and shedding fear for wonder. The Unwritten Book revels in the randomness, connectivity, and magic of everyday existence. And at its heart is the immense weight of love"--Amazon.
520			_a"From the award-winning author of The Dark Dark, a genre-bending work of nonfiction explores the idea of haunting-writ large"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aParapsychology. _939339
650		0	_aGhosts. _935969
650		0	_aHaunted places. _9156310
600	1	0	_aHunt, Samantha.
600	1	0	_aHunt, Samantha _xHomes and haunts.
655		7	_aAutobiographies. _2lcgft _9728
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