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The Hero of this Book: ''A sublime gift Meg Mason

English

By (author): Elizabeth McCracken

A sublime gift MEG MASON

A taut, ground-breaking new novel about a writer's relationship with her larger-than-life mother - and about the very nature of writing.

Ten months after her mothers death, the narrator of The Hero of This Book walks across London on a quiet Sunday. The city was a favourite of her mothers, and as the narrator wanders the streets, she finds herself recalling all that made her complicated mother extraordinary. Even though the woman, a writer, wants to respect her mothers nearly pathological sense of privacy, she must decide whether making a chronicle of this remarkable life constitutes an act of love or betrayal.

* A New Yorker, Time, Washington Post, Oprah Daily and NPR Book of the Year *

I absolutely loved it. A moving portrayal of daughterhoodsuffused with warmth and love MEGAN HUNTER, author of The Harpy

Confirms McCracken as among the finest contemporary chroniclers of everyday life wonderful GUARDIAN

Tender, funny, heartbreaking a writer who always delights RUMAAN ALAM, author of Leave the World Behind

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Product Details
  • Weight: 141g
  • Dimensions: 130 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 02 Nov 2023
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781529919653

About Elizabeth McCracken

Elizabeth McCracken is the award-winning author of eight books Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry The Giant's House (a National Book Award finalist) Niagara Falls All Over Again the memoir An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imag­ination Thunderstruck & Other Stories (winner of the 2014 Story Prize longlisted for the National Book Award) The Souvenir Museum and The Hero of This Book. She has received grants and fellow­ships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts and she was chosen as one of Granta's 20 Best American Writers Under 40. She has served on the faculty at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and currently holds the James Michener Chair for Fic­tion at the University of Texas at Austin.

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