Jami Attenberg

eBook, ePUB

I Came All This Way to Meet You (eBook, ePUB)

Writing Myself Home

Beschreibung

'I was so captivated by this book, so utterly drawn in and overwhelmed by the emotional force of it, that it stayed in my bloodstream, it felt, long after I'd finished it.' Nigella Lawson

'Sharp and engrossing' Roxane Gay

As the bookish daughter of a travelling salesman, Jami Attenberg was drawn to the road. Her wanderlust led her to drive solo across America, and eventually on travels around the globe, embracing - for better and worse - all the messy life she encountered along the way. As she travelled she was crafting, grafting and honing her work, piecing together a living and career, and wrestling with a deep longing for independence while also searching for community, and eventually, a place she might want to stay in for good.

This remarkable memoir reveals the defining moments that pushed her to create a life, and voice, she could claim for herself. Exploring themes of friendship, independence, class and drive, I Came All This Way to Meet You is an inspiring and singular story of living the creative life, and finding one's way home.

Technische Details

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• mit Kopierschutz
• Größe: 0.54MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

Jami Attenberg is the New York Times best-selling author of seven books of fiction, including The Middlesteins and All This Could Be Yours. She has contributed essays to the New York Times Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the Sunday Times, and the Guardian, among other publications. She lives in New Orleans.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Profile
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782839514
• Artikelnr.: 61520211

Rezensionen

"[A] fierce memoir of personal transformation." - USA Today

"I Came All This Way to Meet You details the highs and lows of finding yourself through your work and living a creative life-it's a thrill for superfans and newcomers alike." - Vogue

"Remarkable...It's overwhelming, beautiful stuff, though always full of living, just as effective on love and promise...At some point, [Attenberg] picks up Just Kids, Patti Smith's rightly-praised, luminescent classic about being young and brave in the New York of the early 1970s, and you can feel Attenberg revving and spinning outward from there, into a similar kind of messy, glorious ramble that also unfolds in New York (she lives for years in Brooklyn), but then New Orleans,

Sicily, small bookstores across the West and most compellingly, her Midwestern youth." - Chicago Tribune

"[Attenberg's] writing...shimmers with keen pragmatic observations as well as deeply perceptible humane empathy . . . I Came All This Way to Meet You is a book about the making of a writer in the best possible way - accessible, funny, illuminating. It's a book about kindness and grief, joy and forgiveness, failures, challenges, mistakes, and hope. It's also a terrific ode to good art and true friendship." - Boston Globe

"[Attenberg] brings to the subject her gifts as a novelist: a fierce impulse toward honesty, a companionably cranky voice and an interest in the complicated, bobbing and weaving ways in which people navigate their desires. . . . Her voice and her frankness lead the way through what can sometimes feel like a maze - but the satisfactions are thick on the ground, and we follow. And when we are finished, we hold in our hands the promised ending, the book itself." - Claire Dederer, New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice)

"Attenberg's willingness to engage with the vulnerability that comes with leading a creative life . . . is so remarkable. She is refreshingly candid about what it really means to be a writer and to believe in a calling." - Time (A Must Read Book of 2022)