Description: Further DetailsTitle: Still PicturesCondition: NewSubtitle: On Photography and MemoryISBN-10: 1783788372EAN: 9781783788378ISBN: 9781783788378Publisher: Granta BooksFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 02/01/2024Description: For decades, Janet Malcolm's books and dispatches for the New Yorker have poked and prodded at biographical convention, gesturing towards the artifice that underpins both public and private selves. Here, Malcolm turns her gimlet eye on her own life, examining twelve family photographs to construct a memoir from camera-caught moments, each of which pose questions of their own. She begins with the picture of a morose young girl on a train, leaving Prague at the age of five in 1939. From there we follow her to the Czech enclave of Yorkville in Manhattan, where her father, a psychiatrist and neurologist, and her mother, an attorney from a bourgeois family, traded their bohemian, Dada-inflected lives for the ambitions of middle-class America. From her early, fitful loves to evenings at the old Metropolitan Opera House to her fascination with what it might mean to be a "bad girl," Malcolm assembles a composite portrait of a New York childhood, one that never escaped the tug of Europe and the mysteries of fate and family. Later, Malcolm delves into her marriage to Gardner Botsford, the world of William Shawn's New Yorker, and the libel trial that led her to become a character in her own drama.Displaying the sharp wit and astute commentary that are Malcolmian trademarks, this brief volume develops into a memoir like no other.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 200mmItem Length: 130mmItem Width: 10mmItem Weight: 130gAuthor: Janet MalcolmGenre: BiographyTopic: Music Dance & Theatre, Literary CriticismRelease Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Still Pictures
Publication Name: Still Pictures
Title: Still Pictures
Subtitle: On Photography and Memory
ISBN-10: 1783788372
EAN: 9781783788378
ISBN: 9781783788378
Publisher: Granta Books
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 02/01/2024
Release Year: 2024
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 200mm
Item Length: 130mm
Item Width: 10mm
Item Weight: 130g
Author: Janet Malcolm
Genre: Biography
Topic: Literary Criticism
