Research Catalog

Title

Run towards the danger : confrontations with a body of memory / Sarah Polley ; with illustrations by Lauren Tamaki.

Author

Polley, Sarah

Publication

• New York : Penguin Press, 2022.
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

Tamaki, Lauren

Description

258 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm

Summary

"Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger explores memory and the dialogue between her past and her present. These are the most dangerous stories of my life. The ones I have avoided, the ones I haven't told, the ones that have kept me awake on countless nights. As these stories found echoes in my adult life, and then went another, better way than they did in childhood, they became lighter and easier to carry. Sarah Polley's work as an actor, screenwriter, and director is celebrated for its honesty, complexity, and deep humanity. She brings all those qualities, along with her exquisite storytelling chops, to these six essays. Each one captures a piece of Polley's life as she remembers it, while at the same time examining the fallibility of memory, the mutability of reality in the mind, and the possibility of experiencing the past anew, as the person she is now but was not then. As Polley writes, the past and present are in a "reciprocal pressure dance." Polley contemplates stories from her own life ranging from stage fright to high-risk childbirth to endangerment and more. After struggling with the aftermath of a concussion, Polley met a specialist who gave her wholly new advice: to recover from a traumatic injury, she had to retrain her mind to strength by charging towards the very activities that triggered her symptoms. With riveting clarity, she shows the power of applying that same advice to other areas of her life in order to find a path forward, a way through. Rather than live in a protective crouch, she had to run towards the danger. In this extraordinary book, Polley explores what it is to live in one's body, in a constant state of becoming, learning, and changing"--

Subject

• Polley, Sarah
• Actors > Canada > Biography
• Actors > United States > Biography
• Actors
• Canada
• United States

Genre/Form

• Essays.
• Autobiographies.
• Biographies.

Contents

Alice, collapsing -- The woman who stayed silent -- High risks -- Mad genius -- Dissolving the boundries -- Run towards the danger

Call Number

JFE 23-19

ISBN

• 9780593300350
• 0593300351

LCCN

• 2021060249
• 40031006930

OCLC

1255597582

Author

Polley, Sarah, author.

Title

Run towards the danger : confrontations with a body of memory / Sarah Polley ; with illustrations by Lauren Tamaki.

Publisher

New York : Penguin Press, 2022.

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Tamaki, Lauren, illustrator.

Other Form:

Online version: Polley, Sarah. Run towards the danger New York : Penguin Press, 2022 9780593300367 (DLC) 2021060250

Other Standard Identifier

40031006930

Research Call Number

JFE 23-19