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Original Essays | September 23, 2009

Jonathan Lethem: IMG Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe

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For me, there's a weird, unfathomable gulf — I almost wrote gulp — between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has... Continue »
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    Chronic City

    Jonathan Lethem

Composing a Life

by Mary Cather Bateson

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ISBN13: 9780802138040
ISBN10: 0802138047
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Publisher Comments:

Mary Catherine Bateson has been called "one of the most original and important thinkers of our time" (Deborah Tannen). Grove Press is pleased to reissue Bateson's deeply satisfying treatise on the improvisational lives of five extraordinary women. Using their personal stories as her framework, Dr. Bateson delves into the creative potential of the complex lives we live today, where ambitions are constantly refocused on new goals and possibilities. With balanced sympathy and a candid approach to what makes these women inspiring, examples of the newly fluid movement of adaptation--their relationships with spouses, children, and friends, their ever-evolving work, and their gender--Bateson shows us that life itself is a creative process. "Well-formulated and passionate ... Offers nothing less than a radical rethinking of the concept of achievement." — San Francisco Chronicle "Fascinating ... A masterwork of rare breadth and particularity." — The Boston Globe

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This reissue of Bateson's treatise on the improvisational lives of five extraordinary women uses their personal stories to delve into the creative potential of the complex lives of today, where ambitions are constantly refocused on new goals and possibilities.
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ISBN:
9780802138040
Author:
Bateson, Mary Catherine
Publisher:
Grove Press
Author:
Bateson, Mary Catherine
Location:
New York
Subject:
General
Subject:
Women's Studies
Subject:
Women intellectuals
Subject:
Women's Studies - General
Subject:
Women's studies -- Biographical methods.
Subject:
Women intellectuals - United States
Edition Number:
1st Grove Press ed.
Edition Description:
Grove Press
Series Volume:
12012
Publication Date:
April 2001
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
256
Dimensions:
8.00x5.30x.69 in. .58 lbs.
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