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The Dead Ladies Project (Paperback)
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The Dead Ladies Project (Paperback)
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Loot Price R556
Discovery Miles 5 560
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When Jessa Crispin was thirty, she burned her settled Chicago life
to the ground and took off for Berlin with a pair of suitcases and
no plan beyond leaving. Half a decade later, she's still on the
road, in search not so much of a home as of understanding, a way of
being in the world that demands neither constant struggle nor
complete surrender. The Dead Ladies Project is an account of that
journey-but it's also much, much more. Fascinated by exile, Crispin
travels an itinerary of key locations in its literary map, of
places that have drawn writers who needed to break free from their
origins and start afresh. As she reflects on William James
struggling through despair in Berlin, Nora Barnacle dependant on
and dependable for James Joyce in Trieste, Maud Gonne fomenting
revolution and fostering myth in Dublin, or Igor Stravinsky
starting over from nothing in Switzerland, Crispin interweaves
biography, incisive literary analysis, and personal experience into
a rich meditation on the complicated interactions of place,
personality, and society that can make escape and reinvention such
an attractive, even intoxicating proposition. Personal and profane,
funny and fervent, The Dead Ladies Project ranges from the
nineteenth century to the present, from historical figures to
brand-new hangovers, in search, ultimately, of an answer to a
bedrock question: How does a person decide how to live their life?
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