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I love you but I've chosen darkness
- Title
- I love you but I've chosen darkness / Claire Vaye Watkins.
- Author
- Watkins, Claire Vaye
- Publication
- New York : Riverhead Books, 2021.
- ©2021
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 21-8395 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 290 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "From "the most captivating voice to come out of the West since Annie Proulx" (Vogue), the furious, hilarious, soul-rending story of one woman's reckoning with marriage, work, sex, and motherhood. Since my baby was born, I have been able to laugh and see the funny side of things. a) As much as I ever did. b) Not quite as much now. c) Not so much now. d) Not at all. Leaving behind her husband, Theo, and their young daughter, Claire, a writer, gets on a flight for a speaking engagement in Reno, not carrying much besides a breast pump-and a creeping case of postpartum depression. But what begins as a temporary escape from domestic duties and an opportunity to reconnect with old friends soon mutates into an extended flight from the confines of marriage and motherhood, and a seemingly bottomless descent into the depths of the past. Deep in the Nevada desert where she grew up, Claire meets her ghosts at every turn: the first love whose suicide still haunts her; her father, a member of the most famous cult in American history; her mother, whose native spark dims with every passing year until all that remains is a smoldering addiction. Claire can't go back in time to make any of it right, but what exactly is her way forward? Alone in the wilderness, she finally finds a way to make herself at home in the world. Bold, tender, and often darkly hilarious, I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness reaffirms the "brutal kind of beauty" (Los Angeles Times) and "mercilessly sharp" vision (NPR) that established Watkins as one of the signal writers of our time"--
- Alternative Title
- I love you but I have chosen darkness
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographical fiction.
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Novels.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-8395
- ISBN
- 9780593330210
- 0593330218
- LCCN
- 2021009728
- 40030768453
- OCLC
- 1239650380
- Author
- Watkins, Claire Vaye, author.
- Title
- I love you but I've chosen darkness / Claire Vaye Watkins.
- Publisher
- New York : Riverhead Books, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Form:
- Online version: Watkins, Claire Vaye. I love you but I've chosen darkness. New York : Riverhead Books, 2021 9780593330234 (DLC) 2021009729 (OCoLC)1240829025
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40030768453
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-8395