Sight: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018

Author: Jessie Greengrass
Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd
Category: Fiction, General
Age Group: 15+
Book Format: Hardcover

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018LONGLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2019'A stunning debut' GuardianIn Jessie Greengrass' superb debut novel, our unnamed narrator recounts her progress to motherhood, while remembering the death of her own mother ten years before, and the childhood summers she spent with her psychoanalyst grandmother.Woven among these personal recollections are significant events in medical history: Wilhelm Rontgen's discovery of the X-ray; Sigmund Freud's development of psychoanalysis and the work that he did with his daughter, Anna; and the origins of modern surgery and the anatomy of pregnant bodies.Sight is a novel about being a parent and a child: what it is like to bring a person in to the world, and what it is to let one go. Exquisitely written and fiercely intelligent, it is an incisive exploration of how we see others, and how we might know ourselves.

About Jessie Greengrass
Jessie Greengrass was born in 1982. She studied philosophy in Cambridge and London. An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It won the Edge Hill Short Story Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award, and was shortlisted for the PFD/Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. Sight is her first novel and it was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction.

(BK-9781473652378)

SKU BK-9781473652378
Barcode # 9781473652378
Brand John Murray Publishers Ltd
Artist / Author Jessie Greengrass
Shipping Weight 0.3000kg
Shipping Width 0.170m
Shipping Height 0.020m
Shipping Length 0.230m
Assembled Length 22.500m
Assembled Height 2.000m
Assembled Width 16.600m
Type Hardcover

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