Unspeakable

The Things We Cannot Say

Harriet Shawcross (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

352 Seiten

2020 | Main
Canongate Books (Verlag)
9781786890078 (ISBN)

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From award-winning journalist and film-maker Harriet Shawcross comes a deeply personal exploration of silence, taboo and how and why words fail us

'Compassionate' Guardian
'Extremely affecting' Scotsman

As a teenager, Harriet Shawcross stopped speaking at school for almost a year. As an adult, she became fascinated by the limits of language.

From the inexpressible trauma of trench warfare and the aftermath of natural disaster to the taboo of coming out, Harriet examines all the ways in which words scare us. She studies wartime poet George Oppen, interviews the author of The Vagina Monologues, meets Nepalese earthquake-survivors and the founders of the Samaritans and asks what makes us silent?

Harriet Shawcross is an award-winning filmmaker and journalist. She obtained an MA in Creative Non-Fiction from the University of East Anglia, and was shortlisted for the Manchester Fiction Prize. Unspeakable is her first book.

Erscheinungsdatum	28.02.2020
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	236 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe ► Logopädie
ISBN-13	9781786890078 / 9781786890078
Zustand	Neuware