Proxies - A Memoir in Twenty-four Attempts

''A rich and compelling personal account.'' Financial Times In this memoir in twenty-four essays, Blanchfield focuses on a startling miscellany of topics - Foot Washing, Dossiers, Br''er Rabbit, Housesitting, Man Roulette, the Locus Amoenus - that begin to unpack the essayist himself and his life''s rotating concerns: sex and sexuality, poetry and poetics, and his upbringing in working-class, Primitive Baptist, North Carolina.

Product details

• Authors: Brian Blanchfield
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781509847853
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-4785-3
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Literary essays