The Light Room
$64.10
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
28 October 2024
Summary
‘Kate Zambreno has invented a new form. It is a kind of absolute present, real life captured in closeup’ — Annie Ernaux, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
‘The Light Room is both a gift and a beacon’ — Sinead Gleeson, author of Constellations
‘Kate Zambreno has performed a miracle, capturing real, lived time from within the exhaustion of pandemic-era parenthood. The Light Room reminded me of that fundamental magic of writing - that the details of another person’s life, s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472158949 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472158946 |
| Author: | Kate Zambreno |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Corsair |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 28 October 2024 |
| Weight: | 380g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm x 30mm |
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Early reviews called this book a miracle between two covers. In The Light Room, Zambreno writes about the intersections of catastrophes that unfold on a global scale … Zambreno writes with a sense of hope that will especially resonate with anyone who’s soldiered through pandemic-era parenting * Harper’s Bazaar *Kate Zambreno has invented a new form. It is a kind of absolute present, real life captured in closeup – —Annie Ernaux, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
The Light Room is both a gift and a beacon
– —Sinéad Gleeson, author of ConstellationsOne of our most formally ambitious writers * Esquire *Kate Zambreno has performed a miracle, capturing real, lived time from within the exhaustion of pandemic-era parenthood. The Light Room reminded me of that fundamental magic of writing-that the details of another person’s life, so precisely and honestly rendered, can instantly loosen the edges of your own life and make you feel less alone – —Jenny Odell, New York Times bestselling author of How to Do NothingOne of the great uncategorizable writers of our time * Hero Magazine *About The Author
Kate Zambreno
Kate Zambreno is the author of nine books, most recently The Light Room, a meditation on art and care. Tone, a collaborative study with the writer and scholar Sofia Samatar, under The Committee to Investigate Atmosphere, is forthcoming from Columbia University Press. Zambreno’s fiction and reports have been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, VQR, Astra, BOMB, and more. Zambreno’s books have been translated into seven languages. Kate Zambreno is the Strachan Donnelley Chair in Environmental Writing at Sarah Lawrence College and teaches graduate nonfiction at Columbia University. Zambreno is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Nonfiction.
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