{"product_id":"aurelia-aurlia-kathryn-davis-9781644450789","title":"Aurelia, Aur駘ia: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn eerily dreamlike memoir, and the first work of nonfiction by one of our most inventive novelists.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAurelia, Aur駘ia\u003c\/i\u003e begins on a boat. The author, sixteen years old, is traveling to Europe at an age when one can \"try on personae like dresses.\" She has the confidence of a teenager cultivating her earliest obsessions--Woolf, Durrell, Bergman--sure of her maturity, sure of the life that awaits her. Soon she finds herself in a Greece far drearier than the Greece of fantasy, \"climbing up and down the steep paths every morning with the real old women, looking for kindling.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKathryn Davis's hypnotic new book is a meditation on the way imagination shapes life, and how life, as it moves forward, shapes imagination. At its center is the death of her husband, Eric. The book unfolds as a study of their marriage, its deep joys and stinging frustrations; it is also a book about time, the inexorable events that determine beginnings and endings. The preoccupations that mark Davis's fiction are recognizable here--fateful voyages, an intense sense of place, the unexpected union of the magical and the real--but the vehicle itself is utterly new. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAurelia, Aur駘ia \u003c\/i\u003eexplodes the conventional bounds of memoir. It is an astonishing accomplishment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kathryn Davis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 164445078X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781644450789\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2021 pg. 21\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/15\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/10\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2022 pg. 8","brand":"Kathryn Davis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44055588503807,"sku":"9781644450789","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_463869b2-5073-4f22-a36a-10c2ed7fac65.jpg?v=1685036655","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/aurelia-aurlia-kathryn-davis-9781644450789","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}