Description: My Autobiography of Carson Mccullers, Paperback by Shapland, Jenn, ISBN 1951142292, ISBN-13 9781951142292, Brand New, Free shipping in the US How do you tell the real story of someone misremembered—an icon and idol—alongside your own? Jenn Shapland’s celebrated debut is both question and answer: an immersive, surprising exploration of one of America’s most beloved writers, alongside a genre-defying examination of identity, queerness, memory, obsession, and is a graduate student when she first uncovers letters written to Carson McCullers by a woman named Annemarie. Though Shapland recognizes herself in the letters, which are intimate and unabashed in their feelings, she does not see McCullers as history has portrayed her. Her curiosity gives way to fixation, not just with this newly discovered side of McCullers’s life, but with how we tell queer love stories. Why, Shapland asks, are the stories of women paved over by others’ narratives? What happens when constant revision is required of queer women trying to navigate and self-actualize in straight spaces? And what might the tracing of McCullers’s life—her history, her secrets, her legacy—reveal to Shapland about herself?In smart, illuminating prose, Shapland interweaves her own story with McCullers’s to create a vital new portrait of one of our nation’s greatest literary treasures, and shows us how the writers we love and the stories we tell about ourselves make us who we are.
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Book Title: My Autobiography of Carson Mccullers : a Memoir
Number of Pages: 296 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Tin House Books, LLC
Publication Year: 2021
Topic: Women, Literary, Lgbt
Item Height: 0.8 in
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 10.8 Oz
Author: Jenn Shapland
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
