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Make It Scream, Make It Burn

Leslie Jamison author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Granta Books

Published:1st Oct '20

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Make It Scream, Make It Burn cover

From the author of THE EMPATHY EXAMS comes a profound meditation on isolation, longing and the conflicts faced by all those who choose to tell true stories about the lives of others

'Intelligent, compassionate, and so fiercely, prodigiously brave. This is the essay at its creative, philosophical best' Eleanor Catton, author of The Luminaries on THE EMPATHY EXAMS A profound exploration of the oceanic depths of longing and obsession, Make It Scream, Make It Burn is a book about why and how we tell stories. It takes the reader deep into the lives of strangers - from a woman healed by the song of 'the loneliest whale in the world' to a family convinced their child is a reincarnation of a lost pilot - and asks how we can bear witness to the changing truths of other's lives while striving to find a deeper connection to the complexities of our own.

ISBN: 9781783781560

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 16mm

Weight: 194g

272 pages