A Horse at Night: On Writing

by Cain, Amina
ISBN: 9781948980135
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Overview

A virtuosic meditation on literature and life in the tradition of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own and William H. Gass's On Being Blue.

"Without planning it, I wrote a diary of sorts. Lightly. A diary of fiction. Or is that not what this is?"

A series of essayistic inquiries come together to form a sustained meditation on writers and their works, on the spaces of reading and writing fiction, and how these spaces take shape inside a life. Driven by primary questions of authenticity and freedom in the shadow of ecological and social collapse, A Horse at Night: On Writing 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. Amina Cain's first nonfiction book is an individual reckoning with the contemporary moment and a quietly brilliant contribution to the lineage of Woolf's A Room of One's Own or William H. Gass's On Being Blue, books that are virtuosic arguments for--and beautiful demonstrations of--the essential unity of writing and life.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Cain, Amina
  • ISBN: 9781948980135
  • Condition: Used
  • Number Of Pages: 136
  • Publication Year: 2022
Language: English

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