June

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

Based in part on the author’s mother’s handwritten memoirs, this novel is an act of bricolage in which the narrator keeps finding gaps in the materials. We desire to regain the past, but every time we attempt it we fabricate it anew. Through various narrative voices, the author discovers a different sense of her mother than she held during her lifetime. This is a type of biographical revisionism. We cannot know the past, especially that of our mothers, but we can re-member them. Meticulously researched, this book constitutes an extended meditation on memory, the strength of memory and its fallibility.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-10-15
Mått:130 x 198 x 32 mm
Vikt:270 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Förlag:Cinnamon Press
ISBN:9781788649094

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Helen May Williams lives in South West Wales. Formerly she taught at the University of Warwick and as Helen May Dennis wrote extensively on twentieth-century fiction and poetry. She is the author of June: a biographical novel (Cinnamon Press 2020), Catstrawe (Cinnamon Press 2019) and The Princess of Vix (Three Drops Press 2017). Her parallel text translation of Michel Onfray’s Before Silence is published by The High Window Press (2020). During lockdown she participated in a befriending-by-phone project, which resulted in a publication with co-authors Dominic Williams and Mel Perry: Hold the Line (People Speak Up 2021).