{"product_id":"9781838950644","title":"Unreality Of Memory \/P","description":"\u003cp\u003eBook Title: Unreality Of Memory \/P \u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781838950644 \u003cbr\u003eBy Author(s):ELISA GABBERT \u003cbr\u003eBy Publisher:JOHN MURRAY PRESS \u003cbr\u003eFormat:PB\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'A work of sheer brilliance, beauty and bravery' Andrew Sean Greer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e, author of Less\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Masterly... Her essays have a clarity and prescience that imply a sort of distant, retrospective view, like postcards sent from the near future'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe stare at our phones. We keep multiple tabs open. Our chats and conversations are full of the phrase \"Did you see?\" The feeling that we're living in the worst of times seems to be intensifying, alongside a desire to know precisely how bad things have gotten.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoet and essayist Elisa Gabbert's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Unreality of Memory\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e consists of a series of lyrical and deeply researched meditations on what our culture of catastrophe has done to public discourse and our own inner lives. In these tender and prophetic essays, she focuses in on our daily preoccupation and favorite pasttime: desperate distraction from disaster by way of a desperate obsession with the disastrous.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMoving from public trauma to personal tragedy, from the Titanic and Chernobyl to illness and loss, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Unreality of Memory\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e alternately rips away the facade of our fascination with destruction and gently identifies itself with the age of rubbernecking. A balm, not a burr, Gabbert's essays are a hauntingly perceptive analysis of the anxiety intrinsic in our new, digital ways of being, and also a means of reconciling ourselves to this new world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'One of those joyful books that send you to your notebook every page or so, desperate not to lose either the thought the author has deftly placed in your mind or the title of a work she has now compelled you to read.'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eParis Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"ELISA GABBERT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50241119584479,"sku":null,"price":11.8,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0410\/9529\/9228\/files\/71dVIbVItFL._SY522.jpg?v=1781887458","url":"https:\/\/www.bookmarket.com.sg\/products\/9781838950644","provider":"BookMarket","version":"1.0","type":"link"}