what we dont know about domestic violence can kill us
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Köp båda 2 för 413 krSuperb. -- Louise ONeill * The Sunday Times * Clear, smooth and accessible never folksy but never academic and so matter-of-fact you can feel the writer holding herself in check so as not to overwhelm us with painful details. -- Amy Bloom * The Observer * Powerful No Visible Bruises is a call for action, not a cry of despair. Snyder has written not only an admirable book, but one that should spur change. -- Rosamund Urwin * The Sunday Times * No Visible Bruises is a seminal and breathtaking account of why home is the most dangerous place to be a woman. Through brilliant insights and myth-busting research, compelling storytelling, and a passionate focus on truth-telling, Rachel Louise Snyder places domestic violence exactly where it should be, smack in the centre of everything. A tour de force. -- Eve Ensler, author of <i>The Vagina Monologues</i> and <i>The Apology</i> Powerful Snyder exposes this hidden crisis by combining her own careful analysis with deeply upsetting and thoughtfully told accounts of the victims To her credit, Snyder takes seriously the underlying causes of violence, interviewing perpetrators and noting that many have often been victims themselves [An] important book. -- Alisa Roth * New York Times * A book that manages to be both personal and panoramic, angry and hopeful. * The Economist * This chilling, vital, and urgent book deserves to be read by everyone. -- Joanna Whitehead * The Independent * This is terrifying, courageous reportage from our internal war zone, a fair and balanced telling of an unfair and unbalanced crisis in American family life. Snyder writes with stark lucidity and great compassion, and tells stories of utmost urgency with considerable narrative skill. -- Andrew Solomon, National Book Award-winning, bestselling author of <i>The Noonday Demon, Far from the Tree,</i> and <i>Far and Away</i> Tightly paced, compelling, fascinating and heart-breaking in equal measures The writing style is always clear and accessible as Snyder deftly dismantles myths around violence against women. Its an extraordinary book that deserves to be widely read. -- Louise ONeill * Irish Examiner * Deeply impactful and thoroughly researched a truly unique and beneficial account of abuse and its cultural context. -- Laura Kennedy * The Irish Times * An extraordinary book. * Marie Claire * Gut-wrenching, required reading. * Esquire, Best of Spring * A passionately written, highly intelligent and lucid book Snyder weaves compelling personal accounts through her deeply researched narrative its literary non-fiction at its best, an authoritative, multi-dimensional work that melds hard-headed reporting with self-reflective analysis. -- Frieda Klotz * Irish Independent * Rachel Louise Snyder has uncompromising truths to tell about domestic violence. * The Oldie * Compulsively readable In a writing style that's as gripping as good fiction, as intimate as memoir and deeply informed, [Snyder] takes us into the lives of the abused, the abusers and the survivors The stories are devastating, but Snyder keeps us reading by pointing us toward possible solutions After a few chapters, I was telling a prosecutor friend that everyone in her office no, everyone in the state who deals with family violence had to read this book. Because it will save lives. * The Washington Post * 'Snyder debunks pervasive myths and writes movingly about the lives (and deaths) of people on both sides of the equation. She doesnt give easy answers but presents a wealth of information that is its own form of hope. * New York Times * A meticulous study of the often-overlooked risk factors for women being killed by current or former partners. * The Economist * A brilliant work what makes it move with the suspense of a
Rachel Louise Snyder is the author of Fugitive Denim, the novel What Weve Lost is Nothing, and No Visible Bruises, winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award, the Hillman Prize, and the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, LA Times Book Prize, and Kirkus Prize. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Slate, and elsewhere. Snyder is a Professor of Creative Writing and Journalism at American University and a 20202021 Guggenheim Fellow. She lives in Washington, DC.