Each Leaf, Each Curve of Stem

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

226 kr

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Beskrivning

An epic, intimate and profound novel about grief, trauma, revelation and art – by the author of the award-winning For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain‘Every sentence sings off the page’ Jan CarsonThe year is 1875, and John Ruskin is losing his mind.The celebrated art critic, the revered Professor of Art, the author of countless books, the campaigner for social reform, the man who taught a generation to see, finds himself stumbling blindly in the wake of a terrible grief: the madness and death of a young woman he once loved.Following Ruskin from candlelit séances in country houses to the dazzling palazzos of Venice to the rainswept hills of the Lake District, Victoria MacKenzie captures the exquisite anguish of a man who was astonishingly vibrant and alive in his work, and yet whose attempts at intimacy were hopelessly thwarted. Beautiful, haunting and heartbreaking, Each Leaf, Each Curve of Stem is an unforgettable portrait of longing, madness, grief – and the redemptions of art and the natural world.__________________________Praise for For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain: ‘A beautiful book ... It warmed my heart’ MAX PORTER‘Electrifying ... A pocket epic’ GUARDIAN‘The best first novel I’ve read in years’ RODDY DOYLE‘It illuminates like a shaft of sunlight’ IMOGEN HERMES GOWAR

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2027-01-28
Mått:135 x 216 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781526647993

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Romaner inom Skönlitteratur
Historiska romaner inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Victoria MacKenzie is a fiction writer and poet based in Scotland. Her debut novel For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain was awarded Best First Book in Scotland’s National Book Awards and selected as a book of the year by the Sunday Times, Guardian, Scotsman and Irish Times. MacKenzie is the winner of the Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award and the inaugural Emerging Writer Award from Moniack Mhor. She works as a freelance creative writing tutor and mentor.victoriamackenzie.netSubstack: @victoriamackenzieBluesky: @vickymackenzie.bsky.social

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MacKenzie has an almost painterly approach to storytelling. Each character is carefully and vividly rendered. Each sentence sings off the page … a tender and deeply humane portrait of Ruskin, revealing as much of his flawed humanity as his much celebrated genius. This is historical fiction at its most empathetic and intimate