Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory by Janet Malcolm Hardcover Book

Description: Still Pictures by Janet Malcolm For decades, Janet Malcolms 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 Shawns 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. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Author Biography JANET MALCOLM is widely considered to be one of Americas most notable literary journalists. She was born in Prague and was educated at the University of Michigan. She was a staff writer for the New Yorker and the author of several critically acclaimed books, including In the Freud Archives, The Journalist and the Murderer, Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey and The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, all published by Granta. She won the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award in Biography for Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice (Yale University Press) in 2008. She died in 2021. Review Still Pictures is [an] eclectic but carefully crafted work of montage... What emerges is fascinating... its a bittersweet reminder of Malcolms extraordinary talents * Telegraph *Playful, subversive and engrossing... Malcolm belongs to a subtler class of superhero, a ninja perhaps, whose idiosyncratic oeuvre will be knocking delighted readers off their feet for a long time to come * Sunday Times *She writes fascinatingly... Malcolms charm in Still Pictures comprises, for me... an absolute refusal to pose - and its this that makes the book worth reading * Observer *Like the bulk of her lifes work, at its heart is an inquiry into the elusiveness of truth. Although it may be her in the viewfinder, the real subject is the unreliability of the camera * Financial Times *Funny and true... I have now realised why I recommend her to young writers... because thats what I want to read -- David Aaronovitch * The Times *As a memoirist, Malcolm comes clean about her gaps in memory and her lapses in judgment... The books most charming moments are when the incisive, unsparing adult can be found in the child * Economist *Janet Malcolm, who died in 2021, was one of her generations great practitioners - one might say agitators - of journalism and biography... Far from a nostalgiafest, it is like a family album annotated to an unusually high intellectual standard * Spectator *[A] witty memoir of her youth... the books episodic narrative is addictive... this memoir will make you think about your own familys internal myths * Irish Times *Malcolm found a playful and unpretentious way to write about her own life ... shot through with her unerring sense of the absurd * TLS *This slim volume is as satisfying as many a fuller Life * New Statesman *Its a touching memoir which reminds us of the importance of family photography and the role it can play in our loves, memories and recollections throughout our life. * Amateur Photographer Magazine * Promotional Americas most innovative biographer turns her unblinking gaze upon her own life to create this unique memoir in snapshots Details ISBN1783788364 Author Janet Malcolm Pages 176 Publisher Granta Books Year 2023 ISBN-10 1783788364 ISBN-13 9781783788361 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2023-02-02 UK Release Date 2023-02-02 Imprint Granta Books Subtitle On Photography and Memory Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2023-02-02 NZ Release Date 2023-02-02 DEWEY 070.92 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:140110581;

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