Bibliograph

A horse at night, on writing, Amina Cain

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Label

A horse at night, on writing, Amina Cain

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A horse at night

Oclc number

1313118517

Responsibility statement

Amina Cain

Sub title

on writing

Summary

"In Amina Cain's first nonfiction book, a series of essayistic inquiries come together to form a sustained meditation on writers and their works, on the spaces of reading and writing fiction, and how these spaces take shape inside a life. Driven by primary questions of authenticity and freedom in the shadow of ecological and social collapse, Cain moves associatively through a personal canon of authors-including Marguerite Duras, Elena Ferrante, Renee Gladman, and Virginia Woolf-and topics as timely and various as female friendships, zazen meditation, neighborhood coyotes, landscape painting, book titles, and the politics of excess. A Horse at Night: On Writing is an intimate reckoning with the contemporary moment, and a quietly brilliant contribution to the lineage of Woolf's A Room of One's Own or William H. Gass's On Being Blue, books that are virtuosic arguments for-and beautiful demonstrations of-the essential unity of writing and life"--, Provided by publisher

resource.variantTitle

On writing

Classification