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Savannah (Paperback)
Jean Rolin; Translated by Max Welshinger
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R317
Discovery Miles 3 170
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Savannah is a starkly tender and intimate recollection by French
writer and journalist Jean Rolin of his friendship with British
Vogue photographer Kate Barry. Both humorous and insightful, it in
many ways serves as the epitaph to her life, which ended in a fall
from her fourth-floor apartment in France. Barry was a very close
friend of Jean Rolin, and together the two of them made a trip to
the United States to retrace the footsteps of Flannery O'Connor, a
Southern writer for whom Kate was deeply impassioned. In 2014,
after Barry's death, Jean Rolin wanted to revisit this trip and
reconstruct the memory of their journey in her absence. As he
recreates his roadtrip over the course of this book, which ends,
fittingly, in Savannah, Rolin evokes landscapes, characters, and a
uniquely Southern atmosphere that underscores the relentless
passage of time. Juxtaposed against the themes of loss and
mortality, Jean Rolin evokes with light touches the figure of Kate.
His incredible descriptive talent shines through in vivid
descriptions of the South; he approaches his travel memoir with the
accuracy of a documentary and the vibrant writing of a poet, and
his memories of Kate are preserved beneath the motif of sucking the
marrow out of life and keeping death at bay.
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