
Heating & Cooling
52 Micro-Memoirs
Beth Ann Fennelly(Author)
WW Norton & Co (Publisher)
Published on 10. November 2017
Book
Hardback
112 pages
978-0-393-60947-9 (ISBN)
Description
The 52 micro-memoirs in genre-defying Heating & Cooling offer bright glimpses into a richly lived life, combining the compression of poetry with the truth-telling of nonfiction into one heartfelt, celebratory book. Ranging from childhood recollections to quirky cultural observations, these micro-memoirs build on one another to arrive at a portrait of Beth Ann Fennelly as a wife, mother, writer, and deeply original observer of life's challenges and joys. Some pieces are wistful, some wry, and many reveal the humor buried in our everyday interactions. Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs shapes a life from unexpectedly illuminating moments, and awakens us to these moments as they appear in the margins of our lives.
Reviews / Votes
"Heating and Cooling contains essays that are sometimes as short as 10 words . . . but add up to a surprisingly maximalist portrait of a life." -- New York Times Book Review "The micro-memoirs showcase a range of emotions that belies their brevity-taken from another standpoint, their brevity is what gives them power." -- Wall Street Journal "Beth Ann Fennelly's genre-defying collection is so engaging and readable that you won't even notice how much you're learning about confronting the hardest challenge we all share: being human. Wise, irreverent, funny. . . . Everyone should read this book." -- Atlanta Journal Constitution "Consistently entertaining. . . poised, eloquent, and full of moments of tenderness." -- Electric Literature "Varying in length from a single sentence to several pages, the essays in [Heating and Cooling] are told with wry self-awareness and compassion." -- Poets & Writers "This collection will invite you into the delicate balance between the challenging, sometimes squalid, human condition and the beauty and sadness of the transcendent." -- The Rumpus "Fennelly packs a lot into each short piece, with some lighter in subject matter and others with a sudden punch-in-the-gut feel, weighted with existential exploration. . . . Potent despite their brevity." -- Library Journal, starred "[Heating and Cooling] offer[s] insight into . . . the overall human condition. . . . A sleek, delightful collection." -- Kirkus "Fennelly recounts episodes, events, or earned truths that, given her poignant reflection and graceful, often-funny telling, are sure to stop readers in their tracks. . . . This deceptively slim, convention-defying collection delivers unerringly generous rewards." -- Booklist "Imagine the hundred things you enjoy doing most in the world. Reading Beth Ann Fennelly's Heating & Cooling is more fun than 95 of them." -- Richard Russo "Beth Ann Fennelly brings a poet's sensibility to Heating & Cooling. Each entry is both insightful and precise, a perfect pearl of memory. By marking out these 52 moments, she draws a portrait of a life that is deeply felt and fully awake. I will be the first in line when there are 52 more." -- Ann PatchettMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Dimensions
Height: 193 mm
Width: 122 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
180 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-60947-9 (9780393609479)
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E-Book
10/2017
W. W. Norton & Company
€12.99
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Person
Beth Ann Fennelly, poet laureate of Mississippi from 2016 to 2021, is the author of six books, most recently, Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs. She lives with her husband and their three children in Oxford, Mississippi.