On Being Seen
Will be published approx. on 28. January 2027
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-0-241-80513-8 (ISBN)
Description
When Emilie Pine's debut essay collection, the fiercely candid Notes to Self, was first published she didn't imagine herself as someone breaking a silence. She only knew that she was breaking a fiction - the fiction that she had never been a victim.
Revealing and reflecting on sexual violence and violence against the self, and on the taboos around female bodies and female pain, Notes to Self was a liberation in the form of memoir - but it wasn't the end of the story.
In this exhilarating follow-up collection of personal essays, Emilie Pine once again faces up to the seemingly unsayable. She writes about the vulnerabilities of travelling alone; about living with a controlling partner; about what it means to witness trauma, in life and in art; about good and bad sex; about intimacy and its opposites; about love and luck and risk - and all that it means to feel alive.
Emilie Pine is a writer whose words make us all feel less alone.
Revealing and reflecting on sexual violence and violence against the self, and on the taboos around female bodies and female pain, Notes to Self was a liberation in the form of memoir - but it wasn't the end of the story.
In this exhilarating follow-up collection of personal essays, Emilie Pine once again faces up to the seemingly unsayable. She writes about the vulnerabilities of travelling alone; about living with a controlling partner; about what it means to witness trauma, in life and in art; about good and bad sex; about intimacy and its opposites; about love and luck and risk - and all that it means to feel alive.
Emilie Pine is a writer whose words make us all feel less alone.
Reviews / Votes
Fiercely feminist, fascinating. I have recommended this to several people. And I'm doing the same here * Sunday Times on Notes to Self * Unsparing, formidable, raw. The kind of book you want to give everyone * Irish Times on Notes to Self * Complex, accessible, thoughtful . . . You will love these essays -- Pandora Sykes on 'Notes to Self' Every line pulses with the pain and joy and complexity of an extraordinary life -- Mark O'Connell on 'Notes to Self'More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Penguin Books Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 204 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
297 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-241-80513-8 (9780241805138)
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Person
Emilie Pine is Professor of Modern Drama at University College Dublin, Ireland. She has published widely as an academic and critic. Her first collection of personal essays Notes to Self won the Butler Literary Award, the Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year Award, and Book of the Year 2018 at the Irish Book Awards. She is also the author of the novel Ruth & Pen which won the Kate O'Brien Award.