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Drifts

Kate Zambreno
3.66/5 (1275 ratings)
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A restlessly brilliant novel of creative crisis and transformation

Beguiling and compulsively readable, Drifts is an intimate portrait of reading, writing, and creative obsession. At work on a novel that is overdue to her publisher, spending long days alone with her restless terrier, corresponding ardently with fellow writers, the novel's narrator grows obsessed with the challenge of writing the present tense, of capturing time itself. Entranced by the work of Rilke, Dürer, Chantal Akerman, and others, she photographs the residents and strays of her neighborhood, haunts bookstores and galleries, and records her thoughts in a yellow notebook that soon subsumes her work on the novel. As winter closes in, a series of disturbances—the appearances and disappearances of enigmatic figures, the burglary of her apartment—leaves her distracted and uncertain . . . until an intense and tender disruption changes everything.

A story of artistic ambition, personal crisis, and the possibilities and failures of literature, Drifts is a dramatic step forward for one of our most daring writers.
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
328 pages
Publication:
2020
Publisher:
Riverhead Books
Edition:
Illustrated
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0593087216
ISBN13:
9780593087213
kindle Asin:
B07ZC6RLCY

Drifts

Kate Zambreno
3.66/5 (1275 ratings)
Read Download
A restlessly brilliant novel of creative crisis and transformation

Beguiling and compulsively readable, Drifts is an intimate portrait of reading, writing, and creative obsession. At work on a novel that is overdue to her publisher, spending long days alone with her restless terrier, corresponding ardently with fellow writers, the novel's narrator grows obsessed with the challenge of writing the present tense, of capturing time itself. Entranced by the work of Rilke, Dürer, Chantal Akerman, and others, she photographs the residents and strays of her neighborhood, haunts bookstores and galleries, and records her thoughts in a yellow notebook that soon subsumes her work on the novel. As winter closes in, a series of disturbances—the appearances and disappearances of enigmatic figures, the burglary of her apartment—leaves her distracted and uncertain . . . until an intense and tender disruption changes everything.

A story of artistic ambition, personal crisis, and the possibilities and failures of literature, Drifts is a dramatic step forward for one of our most daring writers.
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
328 pages
Publication:
2020
Publisher:
Riverhead Books
Edition:
Illustrated
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0593087216
ISBN13:
9780593087213
kindle Asin:
B07ZC6RLCY

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