On Smaller Dogs and Larger Life Questions
$22.33
- Hardcover
192 pages
- Release Date
27 February 2018
Summary
Coming up to her sixtieth birthday, Kate Figes found herself turning to the larger questions of family, love and life’s meaning. It is like this author to examine different stages in writing, and her books - from new motherhood and adolescence to coupledom and infidelity - testify to this way of understanding herself and others: so naturally she turned to writing to explore the challenges of becoming sixty. And then - a horrible, and sudden diagnosis of breast cancer which had metastasised.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349011028 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349011028 |
| Author: | Kate Figes |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 27 February 2018 |
| Weight: | 312g |
| Dimensions: | 225mm x 137mm x 19mm |
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Critics Review
A valuable and immensely moving account of the small pleasures and substantial attachments that enrich our appreciation of life– Times Literary Supplement
There is a rare honesty and rawness to Figes’s writing that makes tears jump into your eyes * Sunday Telegraph *
her descriptions of the moments of euphoria induced by an acceptance of life’s transience … have a sharp sweetness that stays with you long after you stop reading * Big Issue *
A valuable and immensely moving account of the small pleasures and substantial attachments that enrich our appreciation of life * Times Literary Supplement *
About The Author
Kate Figes
Kate Figes is the author of five previous works of non-fiction: The Big Fat Bitch Book, Life After Birth, The Terrible Teens - What Every Parent Needs to Know, Couples: How We Make Love Last, and Our Cheating Hearts: Love and Loyalty, Lust and Lies, as well as two novels. She is married with two children and lives in London.
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