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A raw, cerebral work devoted to the inextricability of pleasure and pain, and to the question of what role, if any, aesthetic beauty can play in times of great heartache or grief.

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Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation - Olivia LaingA Guardian Book of the Year**AS SEEN ON BBC2's BETWEEN THE COVERS**A Guardian Book of the YearMaggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation - Olivia LaingBluets winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with famous blue figures, including Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Yves Klein, Leonard Cohen and Andy Warhol. While its narrator sets out to construct a sort of 'pillow book' about her lifelong obsession with the colour blue, she ends up facing down both the painful end of an affair and the grievous injury of a dear friend. The combination produces a raw, cerebral work devoted to the inextricability of pleasure and pain, and to the question of what role, if any, aesthetic beauty can play in times of great heartache or grief.Much like Roland Barthes's A Lover's Discourse, Bluets has passed between lovers in the ecstasy of new love, and been pressed into the hands of the heartbroken. Visceral, learned, and acutely lucid, Bluets is a slim feat of literary innovation and grace, never before published in the UK.

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Published in the UK for the first time, this is a thoughtful, visceral memoir about the author's lifelong obsession with the colour blue. 'Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today...' Olivia Laing, Guardian

Author Biography

Maggie Nelson is the author of several books of poetry and prose, including the New York Times bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award winner The Argonauts, and most recently in the UK, Bluets. She teaches at University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles.

Review

"Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation. " -- Olivia Laing "Maggie Nelson... She's so much better than anything I've read for a long, long time." -- Karl Ove Knausgaard "I remember where I was when I read each of Maggie Nelson's books in the same way I remember a place where I heard important news. Her words come, as though from a great distance, and strike incredibly close. I did not actually read Bluets, I think -- I just let it hit me." -- Anne Enright "Arty, smart and gorgeous meditation on the color blue." Time Out "What could be more invented than a life story that reads like a novel? Bluets doesn't invent that way: its inventions are wilder, wiser (and more true) than that... each proposition is breathtaking." Brick

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Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation - Olivia LaingA Guardian Book of the Year

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Transcendent.... very inspiring. She's an amazing writer.

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Transcendent.... very inspiring. She's an amazing writer.

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Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation - Olivia Laing A Guardian Book of the Year

Details ISBN1911214527 Author Maggie Nelson Pages 112 Year 2017 ISBN-10 1911214527 ISBN-13 9781911214526 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2017-06-01 Imprint Jonathan Cape Ltd Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Media Book DEWEY 814.54 Publisher Vintage Publishing Language English UK Release Date 2017-06-01 AU Release Date 2017-06-01 NZ Release Date 2017-06-01 Subtitle AS SEEN ON BBC2'S BETWEEN THE COVERS Audience General Alternative 9781473548039 We've got this

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