Ongoingness - The End of a Diary
Author(s): Sarah Manguso
Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
'This small-sized book has immense power. Marvel at the clarity and fire.' Zadie SmithSarah Manguso kept a meticulous diary for twenty-five years. 'I wanted to end each day with a record of everything that had ever happened,' she explains. But this simple statement belies a terror that she might forget something, that she might miss something important. Maintaining that diary, of eight hundred thousand words, became a daily attempt to remember, to fix the passage of time. Then Manguso became pregnant and had a child, and these two events caused a monumental shift that changed her relationship to time and to mortality, and also to her diary. Ongoingness is a beautiful, daring, honest and shifting work that grapples with writing, motherhood and time.
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- : Pan Macmillan
- : Picador
- : 0.204
- : July 2018
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- : books
Special Fields
- : Sarah Manguso
- : Hardback
- : 1
- : English
- : 814/.6
- : 96