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‘Compelling, elegant and bitingly smart, Reproduction left me
reeling. It is playful and serious, witty and searing, inventive
and heart-rending. I utterly loved it.’ Nell Stevens, author of
Briefly, A Delicious Life ‘I read this novel in a single
rapturous sitting, torn between the desire to hurtle through its
hypnotic prose and the desire to reread every perfect sentence.
Reproduction exquisitely captures the lunacy of inhabiting an
animal body with a human mind, and somehow manages also to be
gross, funny, heartrending, and formally acrobatic. Louisa Hall is
a singular talent and I am a devotee.’ Melissa Febos, author of
Body Work and Girlhood ‘A brave and dynamic novel about the
creation of life and art – narratively free, compulsively
readable, and true to life.’ Tao Lin, author of Leave Society and
Taipei ‘What a brilliant novel! I was moved, troubled, enchanted;
hardly able to breathe as I read. Hall’s dazzling and original
tale has the force of myth, embodying the monstrous challenges of
reproducing in our strange new world.’ Andrea Barrett, author of
Ship Fever and Natural History ‘It’s taken me seven years of
reading, and about a thousand more books, to be able to say once
again: “This is the best book I’ve ever read.” For one thing,
Louisa Hall has written what is by far the best depiction of
childbirth I’ve ever seen in print. In other pages, she has
perfectly captured the hollow void of grief after the miscarriage
of a wanted child. She has reminded me of the sometime-strangeness
of living inside a woman’s body when it refuses to get pregnant
when you want it to, or gets pregnant when you don’t want it to.
I’ve also had the privilege of spending time with a deeply
feeling, deeply observant narrator, and she has gifted me with a
wise and revelatory view of these times. When I read this book
again in ten years I’ll surely be saying to myself: ‘Yes, that
is exactly how it was.’ It’s a marvellous gift of a book.’
Claire Oshetsky, author of Chouette For readers of Rachel Cusk,
Jenny Offill, and Doireann Ní Ghríofa, a deeply intimate
novel about pregnancy, birth, and artistic creation, by the Dylan
Thomas Prize-shortlisted author of Trinity and Speak. A woman
begins work on a novel about Mary Shelley while pregnant for the
first time. Recently married, she has just moved from New York to
Montana. As the woman writes, fragments of Shelley’s story begin
to detach themselves from the page. Moving through her reproductive
years, Shelley endured a catalogue of losses painful beyond
comprehension. Still, she wrote, conceiving Frankenstein in
1818. The woman’s experiences of pregnancy, miscarriage and
labour are traumatic and disorienting, especially in the context of
political upheaval, climate crisis, and an ongoing
pandemic. Finally, she gives birth to a daughter and together
they emerge into another world. Then a friend from the past
reappears. Anna is a biochemist who has been struggling to become a
parent, a scientist who sees everything as an experiment. How
far will she go in her desire to bring a baby into being? A
Frankenstein for the twenty-first century, Reproduction is a story
of intense grief and transformative joy, and a powerful depiction
of the emotional and physical costs of creating new life. 'Louisa
Hall is a writer to be admired.' Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow
Birds ‘Crystalline, utterly persuasive and transfixing.’ New
York Times on Speak ‘Hypnotic . . . Hall has a knack for the
precise, underwritten image.’ Guardian on Speak
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Trinity (Paperback)
Louisa Hall
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A fascinating, complex, and multi-faceted man, Oppenheimer was a
devotee of liberal causes, as well as the father of the atom bombs
dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He loyally protected his
Communist friends only to later betray them; he repeatedly lied
about love affairs and struggled to explain his actions; he
defended the use of the atomic bomb he helped create, then lobbied
against nuclear proliferation. Hall's brilliant and fresh new novel
explores the overlap between science and literature, the
connections between fiction and biography, and the different ways
in which we know other people. Ultimately it begs the question: how
can we ever really know another person?
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Speak (Paperback)
Louisa Hall
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She cannot run. She cannot walk. She cannot even blink. As her
batteries run down for the final time, all she can do is speak.
Will you listen? From a pilgrim girl's diary, to a traumatised
child talking to a software program; from Alan Turing's conviction
in the 1950s, to a genius imprisoned in 2040 for creating illegally
lifelike dolls: all these lives have shaped and changed a single
artificial intelligence - MARY3. In Speak she tells you their
story, and her own. It is the last story she will ever tell, spoken
both in celebration and in warning. When machines learn to speak,
who decides what it means to be human? 'TRANSFIXING' New York Times
'BRILLIANT' Huffington Post 'INCREDIBLE' Buzzfeed 'HYPNOTIC'
Guardian 'A MASTERPIECE' NPR
'Brilliant . . . Hall has shaped a richly imagined, tremendously
moving fictional work. Its genius is not to explain but to embody
the science and politics that shaped Oppenheimer's life . . .The
resulting quantum portrait feels both true and dazzlingly
unfamiliar' New York Times J. Robert Oppenheimer - the father of
the atomic bomb - was a brilliant scientist, a champion of liberal
causes, and a complex and often contradictory character. In Louisa
Hall's kaleidoscopic novel, seven fictional characters bear witness
to his life. From a secret service agent who tailed him in San
Francisco, to the young lover of a colleague in Los Alamos, to a
woman fleeing McCarthyism who knew him on St. John, as these men
and women fall into the orbit of a brilliant but mercurial mind at
work, all consider his complicated legacy while also uncovering
deep and often unsettling truths about their own lives. In Trinity,
Louisa Hall has crafted an explosive story about what it means to
truly know someone, and about the secrets we keep from the world
and from ourselves.
For more than thirty years, William Adair's faith in life was based
on two indisputable principles: the exceptional good looks and
athletic talents of his three daughters and the historical status
of his family in their Philadelphia suburb. After suffering a
stroke, William wakes up in his hospital bed to realize that his
world has collapsed: his children are less extraordinary than he
had remembered and his family's notable history has been forgotten.
William's daughters--all tennis champions in their youth--are in
decline. Having lost their father's pride, the three sisters
struggle to define themselves. Their mother, whose memory has
started to fade, is unable to help them recall the talented girls
they used to be.
For three generations, a carriage house has stood on the Adair
property. Built by William's grandfather, it was William's
childhood refuge and a sign of the family's prominence. Now held
captive by a neighbor due to a zoning error, the house has decayed
beyond recognition and may even be condemned.
Rallying to save their father, Diana, Elizabeth, and Isabelle take
on the battle for the carriage house that once stood as a symbol of
their place in the world. Overcoming misunderstandings and
betrayals both deep in the past and painfully new, each of the
Adairs ultimately finds a place of forgiveness. "The Carriage House
"is a moving, beautifully wrought debut novel about the complex
bonds of siblings, about rebuilding lost lives, and about the
saving grace of love.
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Speak Lib/E (Standard format, CD)
Louisa Hall; Read by Adrienne Rusk, Joe Ochman, Jennifer Page, Christopher Ashman, …
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Discovery Miles 9 750
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