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Make It Scream, Make It Burn Lib/E: Essays
Contributor(s): Jamison, Leslie (Read by)
ISBN: 154910019X     ISBN-13: 9781549100192
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
OUR PRICE:   $69.29  
Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats
Published: September 2019
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- Literary Collections | Essays
- Philosophy | Essays
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
 
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Publisher Description:
From the astounding (Entertainment Weekly), spectacularly evocative (The Atlantic), and brilliant (Los Angeles Times) author of the New York Times bestsellers The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes a return to the essay form in this expansive new book.With the virtuosic synthesis of memoir, criticism, and journalism for which she has become known, Leslie Jamison offers us fourteen new essays that are by turns ecstatic, searching, staggering, and wise. In its kaleidoscopic sweep, Make It Scream, Make It Burn creates a profound exploration of the oceanic depths of longing and the reverberations of obsession.Among Jamison's subjects are 52 Blue, deemed the loneliest whale in the world; the eerie past-life memories of children; the devoted citizens of an online world called Second Life; the haunted landscape of the Sri Lankan Civil War; and an entire museum dedicated to the relics of broken relationships. Jamison follows these examinations to more personal reckonings -- with elusive men and ruptured romances, with marriage and maternity -- in essays about eloping in Las Vegas, becoming a stepmother, and giving birth.Often compared to Joan Didion and Susan Sontag, and widely considered one of the defining voices of her generation, Jamison interrogates her own life with the same nuance and rigor she brings to her subjects. Indeed, this refusal to hide -- this emotional and intellectual frankness -- is precisely the quality that makes her questing and irrepressible voice impossible to resist.

Contributor Bio(s): Jamison, Leslie: -

Leslie Jamison is a New York Times bestselling author who has been published in the New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, Harper's, and the Oxford American. She teaches at Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn with her family.