The Reactor: A Book about Grief and Repair by Nick Blackburn Paperback Book

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A crystalline, inventive account of loss from a thrilling young literary talent - and a journey through grief's destructive and creative possibilities.

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'One of the finest accounts of the mysterious workings of grief I have ever read.' - Helen Macdonald'Beautiful, strange and completely compelling.' -Olivia Laing'I read it with awe and sorrow.' -Fatima BhuttoI tore the arse of my pyjamas one morning, about a year before he died, and my father sewed it up perfect in a few minutes, just like that. I was looking at them this morning actually, his line of white stitches. It's beautiful really. They've held.After the sudden death of his father, Nick Blackburn embarks on a singular, labyrinthine journey to understand his loss. How do you create an existence when all you can see is a void?The Reactor is a memoir about absence and creative possibilities, assembled like the pieces of a puzzle. Through philosophy, music, fashion, psychology, art and film, Blackburn travels a vast panorama of ideas and characters to offer an entirely new exploration of grief. This is a book about looking for and finding chain reactions and human connection - a work of enduring fragmentary beauty.

Author Biography

Nick Blackburn is a therapist who specialises in LGBTQ+ issues and completed a PhD in English Literature at Cambridge (on the use of quotation marks in Renaissance drama).

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A fresh, inventive memoir about about loss and finding chain reactions between everything we see, hear and experience... The Reactor captures all of grief's messy tangles.

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A crystalline, inventive account of loss from a thrilling young literary talent - and a journey through grief's destructive and creative possibilities. 'One of the finest accounts of the mysterious workings of grief I have ever read.' - Helen Macdonald 'Beautiful, strange and completely compelling.' - Olivia Laing 'I read it with awe and sorrow.' - Fatima Bhutto I tore the arse of my pyjamas one morning, about a year before he died, and my father sewed it up perfect in a few minutes, just like that. I was looking at them this morning actually, his line of white stitches. It's beautiful really. They've held. After the sudden death of his father, Nick Blackburn embarks on a singular, labyrinthine journey to understand his loss. How do you create an existence when all you can see is a void? The Reactor is a memoir about absence and creative possibilities, assembled like the pieces of a puzzle. Through philosophy, music, fashion, psychology, art and film, Blackburn travels a vast panorama of ideas and characters to offer an entirely new exploration of grief. This is a book about looking for and finding chain reactions and human connection - a work of enduring fragmentary beauty.

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A fresh, inventive memoir about about loss and finding chain reactions between everything we see, hear and experience... The Reactor captures all of grief's messy tangles.

Details ISBN0571367755 Author Nick Blackburn Publisher Faber & Faber Year 2023 ISBN-10 0571367755 ISBN-13 9780571367757 Publication Date 2023-01-05 UK Release Date 2023-01-05 Pages 416 Format Paperback Illustrator Sean Michael Lucas Imprint Faber & Faber Subtitle A Book about Grief and Repair Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2023-01-05 Birth 1868 Death 1936 Affiliation Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Position Professor of Early Medieval History Qualifications M.S., RN-CS, Pnp Edition Description Main DEWEY 155.937092 Audience General NZ Release Date 2023-03-20 We've got this

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