![]() Her story collection, An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It, won the Edge Hill Prize 2016 and a Somerset Maugham Award, and she was shortlisted for the PFD/Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. She studied philosophy in Cambridge and London. Kp boken Sight av Jessie Greengrass (ISBN 9781473652392) hos Adlibris. Mini-bio: Jessie Greengrass was born in 1982. ![]() Exquisitely written and fiercely intelligent, it is an incisive exploration of how we see others, and how we might know ourselves. Sight is a novel about being a parent and a child: what it is like to bring a person in to the world, and what it is to let one go. Woven among these personal recollections are significant events in medical history: Wilhelm Rontgen’s discovery of the X-ray Sigmund Freud’s development of psychoanalysis and the work that he did with his daughter, Anna and the origins of modern surgery and the anatomy of pregnant bodies. Readers willing to give themselves over to Greengrass penetrating vision will surely expand theirs. ![]() ![]() Synopsis: In Jessie Greengrass’ dazzlingly brilliant 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 grandmother. Sight delves into a lot in under 200 pages: mothers and daughters, birth and death, loss and grief, finding ones balance, the ardor and arduousness of scientific discovery. ![]()
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