The Folded Clock
A Diary
1st Edition
Published on 9. March 2017
304 pages
978-1-4088-8430-0 (ISBN)
Description
An insightful meditation on time, relationships and identity, The Folded Clock is a funny, thoughtful and inquisitive diary for fans of Olivia Laing and Jenny Offill
'Exquisite ... Witty, sly, critical, inventive and adventurous' New York Times
'Scathingly funny ... Exhilarating ... An engaging portrait of a woman's sense of identity' LA Times
Like many young people, Heidi Julavits kept a diary. Decades later she found her old diaries in a storage bin, and hoped to discover the early evidence of the person (and writer) she'd since become. Instead, they 'revealed me to possess the mind of a paranoid tax auditor'.
Thus was born a desire to try again, to chronicle her daily life as a fortysomething woman, wife, mother and writer. The dazzling result is The Folded Clock, in which the diary form becomes a meditation on time and self, youth and aging, betrayal and loyalty, friendship and romance, faith and fate, marriage and family, desire and death, gossip and secrets, art and ambition.
The Folded Clock is as playful as it is brilliant, a tour de force by one of the most gifted prose stylists in the English language.
'Exquisite ... Witty, sly, critical, inventive and adventurous' New York Times
'Scathingly funny ... Exhilarating ... An engaging portrait of a woman's sense of identity' LA Times
Like many young people, Heidi Julavits kept a diary. Decades later she found her old diaries in a storage bin, and hoped to discover the early evidence of the person (and writer) she'd since become. Instead, they 'revealed me to possess the mind of a paranoid tax auditor'.
Thus was born a desire to try again, to chronicle her daily life as a fortysomething woman, wife, mother and writer. The dazzling result is The Folded Clock, in which the diary form becomes a meditation on time and self, youth and aging, betrayal and loyalty, friendship and romance, faith and fate, marriage and family, desire and death, gossip and secrets, art and ambition.
The Folded Clock is as playful as it is brilliant, a tour de force by one of the most gifted prose stylists in the English language.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-8430-0 (9781408884300)
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Person
Heidi Julavits is the author of four critically acclaimed novels (The Vanishers, The Uses of Enchantment, The Effect of Living Backwards, and The Mineral Palace) and co-editor, with Sheila Heti and Leanne Shapton, of the New York Times bestseller Women in Clothes. Her fiction has appeared in Harper's Magazine, McSweeney's, and The Best American Short Stories, among other places. She's a founding editor of The Believer magazine and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in Manhattan, where she teaches at Columbia University. She was born and raised in Portland, Maine.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- June 21
- March 3
- July 29
- July 18
- August 2
- November 5
- October 13
- September 5
- July 4
- July 16
- October 18
- June 18
- July 19
- June 26
- August 9
- March 27
- September 9
- November 3
- October 26
- July 31
- July 16
- May 2
- May 26
- July 14
- October 30
- June 27
- September 5
- November 14
- August 3
- September 15
- August 17
- October 31
- September 7
- November 16
- August 5
- August 7
- June 28
- July 27
- July 22
- July 23
- September 12
- January 3
- November 4
- August 4
- January 5
- July 3
- August 19
- August 6
- April 19
- May 13
- July 28
- August 22
- November 16
- October 10
- November 7
- July 30
- December 9
- September 6
- October 15
- May 9
- July 20
- October 14
- January 11
- September 12
- September 7
- October 2
- June 21
- August 14
- November 25
- October 4
- August 18
- January 4
- May 13
- July 22
- August 26
- September 1
- April 27
- May 17
- April 23
- August 13
- October 8
- August 23
- August 8
- April 21
- August 31
- October 12
- May 5
- August 30
- June 8
- August 16
- July 4
- May 16
- January 17
- About The Author
- eCopyright
