The folded clock : a diary
Julavits, Heidi2017
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Total copies: 2
Like many young people, Heidi Julavits kept a diary. Decades later she looked through her old diaries hoping to discover early evidence of the person (and writer) she'd since become. Instead, 'The actual diaries revealed me to possess the mind of a paranoid tax auditor'. After reading through daily chronicles of anxieties about grades, looks, boys and popularity, Julavits writes, 'I want to good-naturedly laugh at this person. I want to but I can't. What she wanted then is scarcely different from what I want today'. Thus was born a desire to try again, to chronicle her daily life as a 40-something woman, wife, mother and writer. This is the dazzling result, in which the diary form becomes a meditation on time and self, youth and ageing, betrayal and loyalty, friendship and romance, faith and fate, marriage and family, desire and death, gossip and secrets, and art and ambition.
Main title:
The folded clock : a diary / Heidi Julavits.
Author:
Julavits, Heidi, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Circus, 2017.
Collation:
290 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9781408884294 (hbk)
Dewey class:
818.603818.603 JUL
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2461878