Sight
shortlisted for the women's prize for fiction 2018
$28.64
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
7 January 2019
Summary
Sight: A Novel of Mothers, Daughters, and the Science of Seeing
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018
LONGLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2019
‘A stunning debut’ *Guardian*
In 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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473652392 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1473652391 |
| Author: | Jessie Greengrass |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 7 January 2019 |
| Weight: | 150g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 16mm |
You Can Find This Book In
What They're Saying
Critics Review
A stunning debut - Guardian
Precise and moving … The pages on the mother’s decline are a masterclass in wrenching, pitiless truth … the potted stories of Rontgen, Freud and Hunter form a fluid, richly associative historic narrative of investigation into the body and the mind, about seeking constantly to expand the borders of what we can see - Daily Telegraph ****An exceptionally accomplished debut - ObserverThe poise, intelligence and serious intent of Sight will be lauded, and rightly so. I would not be surprised to see it on heavyweight prize lists - Sunday TimesExceptional … The prose is unsentimental, measured, breathtaking in its elegance … remarkably moving - The SpectatorThere are echoes of WG Sebald and Rachel Cusk in this thoughtful, digressive style that swirls together the historical and the personal, but Greengrass’s questing intellect and elegant prose are all her own - Guardian, 50 Books to Read NowThis is a first novel - an original one by a writer who clearly has considerable gifts and a serious, nuanced approach to individual psychology and intellectual history - Financial TimesGreengrass’s fiercely cerebral despatch from one of life’s most extraordinary rites of passage impresses linguistically, intellectually and emotionally - Mail on SundayAbout The Author
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.
Returns
This item is eligible for free returns within 30 days of delivery. See our returns policy for further details.