Run Towards The Danger
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- ISBN 9781914613210
- Dimensions: 139 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jun 2022
- Publisher: Duckworth Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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FROM OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER OF WOMEN TALKING
'Fascinating, harrowing, courageous, and deeply felt... speaks to all who have encountered dark waters and have had to navigate them' MARGARET ATWOOD
Sarah Polley's work as an actor, screenwriter and director is celebrated for its honesty, complexity and deep humanity. She brings all those qualities, along with her exquisite storytelling skills, to these six essays. Each one captures a piece of Polley's life as she remembers it, while at the same time examining the fallibility of memory and the embodied reactions of children and women adapting and surviving. The guiding light is the possibility of experiencing the past anew, as the person she is now but was not then.
In this extraordinary book, Polley explores what it is to live in one's body, in a constant state of becoming, learning and changing. As she was advised after a catastrophic head injury - if we relinquish our protective crouch and run towards the danger, then life can be reset, reshaped and lived afresh.
Sarah Polley is an Academy Award-winning screenwriter, director and actor. After making short films, Polley made her feature-length directorial debut with Away from Her in 2006. Her other projects include Stories We Tell, which won the New York Film Critics Circle prize and the National Board of Review award for best documentary; the miniseries adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel Alias Grace; and the romantic comedy Take This Waltz. She won an Oscar for the screenplay of Women Talking in 2023, which she adapted from Miriam Toews' novel, and also directed. As a child she starred in the long-running children's series Road to Avonlea and in Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
