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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. The fourth of Candida Lawrences stand-alonememoirs, the collection of pieces that is Vanishingreveals a life-long awareness of human fragility andthe constant proximity of alienation and separation.A survivor in the truest sense and a woman withthe greatest personal resilience, Candida Lawrencerecalls what it is to make each day an assertion ofindependence. Her deeply felt remembrancesalways grant us an honest account of what it isto live in this unstable world. And the pieces thatmake up Vanishing are no exception.Vanishing opens with Lawrences childhood distrustof mens use of words and an assertion that shewill ever write only truth. By the second piece inthis volume it comes clear that there is no subjectshe will not address with an eloquent, understatedhonesty that reveals her heart and her mind andher constant resistance to expectation. By the endof this volume what comes clearest is her sensethat modernity has separated us from the most realemotions and the most sensible attachments.As always, Lawrences writing is filled with smart,gentle anger, sweet sadness, and the most privatesense of what is vital and important.To read this memoir is not only to know a remarkablewoman; reading all of Lawrence is to see the worldthrough eyes that are unblinking over sixty fiveyears. Vanishing opens with Lawrence's childhood distrust of men's use of words and an assertion that she will ever write only truth. By the second piece in this volume it comes clear that there is no subject she will not address with an eloquent, understated honestly that reveals her heart and her mind and her constant resistance to expectation. By the end of this volume what comes clearest is her sense that modernity has separated us from the most real emotions and the most sensible attachments. She recalls what it is to make each day an assertion of independence. As always, Lawrence's writing is filled with smart, gentle anger, sweet sadness, and the most private sense of what is vital and important. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781932961669
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. The fourth of Candida Lawrences stand-alonememoirs, the collection of pieces that is Vanishingreveals a life-long awareness of human fragility andthe constant proximity of alienation and separation.A survivor in the truest sense and a woman withthe greatest personal resilience, Candida Lawrencerecalls what it is to make each day an assertion ofindependence. Her deeply felt remembrancesalways grant us an honest account of what it isto live in this unstable world. And the pieces thatmake up Vanishing are no exception.Vanishing opens with Lawrences childhood distrustof mens use of words and an assertion that shewill ever write only truth. By the second piece inthis volume it comes clear that there is no subjectshe will not address with an eloquent, understatedhonesty that reveals her heart and her mind andher constant resistance to expectation. By the endof this volume what comes clearest is her sensethat modernity has separated us from the most realemotions and the most sensible attachments.As always, Lawrences writing is filled with smart,gentle anger, sweet sadness, and the most privatesense of what is vital and important.To read this memoir is not only to know a remarkablewoman; reading all of Lawrence is to see the worldthrough eyes that are unblinking over sixty fiveyears. Vanishing opens with Lawrence's childhood distrust of men's use of words and an assertion that she will ever write only truth. By the second piece in this volume it comes clear that there is no subject she will not address with an eloquent, understated honestly that reveals her heart and her mind and her constant resistance to expectation. By the end of this volume what comes clearest is her sense that modernity has separated us from the most real emotions and the most sensible attachments. She recalls what it is to make each day an assertion of independence. As always, Lawrence's writing is filled with smart, gentle anger, sweet sadness, and the most private sense of what is vital and important. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781932961669
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