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A line made by walking

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  • Publisher:
    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Baume, Sara
    Contributor: Recorded Books, Inc.
    Date:
    Created
    2017
    Summary:

    The author of the award-winning Spill Simmer Falter Wither returns with a stunning new novel about a young artist's search for meaning and healing in rural Ireland. Struggling to cope with urban life-and life in general-Frankie, a twenty-something artist, retreats to her family's rural house on "turbine hill," vacant since her grandmother's death three years earlier. It is in this space, surrounded by countryside and wild creatures, that she can finally grapple with the chain of events that led her here-her shaky mental health, her difficult time in art school-and maybe, just maybe, regain her footing in art and life. As Frankie picks up photography once more, closely examining the natural world around her, she reconsiders seminal works of art and their relevance. With "prose that makes sure we look and listen,"* Sara Baume has written an elegant novel that is as much an exploration of wildness, the art world, mental illness, and community as it is a profoundly beautiful and powerful meditation on life. *Atlantic

    Subject(s): FICTION / Literary
    Original Publisher: New York, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9780544716971
    Collection(s)/Series: Mental Health Resources