Bluets - AS SEEN ON BBC2'S BETWEEN THE COVERS (Hardcover)

**AS SEEN ON BBC2's BETWEEN THE COVERS** A Guardian Book of the Year Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation - Olivia Laing Bluets winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with famous blue figures, including Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Yves Klein, Leonard Cohen and Andy Warhol. While its narrator sets out to construct a sort of 'pillow book' about her lifelong obsession with the colour blue, she ends up facing down both the painful end of an affair and the grievous injury of a dear friend. The combination produces a raw, cerebral work devoted to the inextricability of pleasure and pain, and to the question of what role, if any, aesthetic beauty can play in times of great heartache or grief. Much like Roland Barthes's A Lover's Discourse, Bluets has passed between lovers in the ecstasy of new love, and been pressed into the hands of the heartbroken. Visceral, learned, and acutely lucid, Bluets is a slim feat of literary innovation and grace, never before published in the UK.

General

Imprint:	Jonathan Cape
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2017
Authors:	Maggie Nelson
Dimensions:	204 x 138 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	112
ISBN-13:	978-1-911214-52-6
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > General Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > Art styles not limited by date > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General Books > Biography > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
LSN:	1-911214-52-7
Barcode:	9781911214526

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