The Empathy Exams

Informationen zum Autor Leslie Jamison grew up in Los Angeles. Educated at Harvard College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she has also worked as an innkeeper in California, a schoolteacher in Nicaragua, and an office temp in Manhattan. She is the NewYork Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams , as well as a novel, The Gin Closet . Her work has appeared in Harper's , The Atlantic, Oxford American , Virginia Quarterly Review , and the New York Times Magazine, where she is a contributing writer. She directs the graduate nonfiction program at Columbia University. Klappentext A powerful yet refreshing essay collection centred around themes of confession, illness, violence and sentimentality from an exciting new American talent Zusammenfassung A powerful yet refreshing essay collection centred around themes of confession! illness! violence and sentimentality from an exciting new American talent

Product details

• Authors: Leslie Jamison
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.06.2015
• EAN: 9781847088420
• ISBN: 978-1-84708-842-0
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 200 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Literary essays