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Sight : a novel / Jessie Greengrass.

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  • ISBN: 9780525574606
  • Physical Description: 198 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Hogarth, 2018.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Subject: Motherhood > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.

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  • 4 of 4 copies available at Sitka. (Show)
  • 4 of 4 copies available at BC Public Libraries. (Show)
  • 0 of 0 copies available at Kootenay Library Federation.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Fernie Heritage Library. (Show preferred library)

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  • Baker & Taylor
    "The remarkable first novel from the award-winning British writer, Jessie Greengrass 'It seemed, at times, an act of profound selfishness, to have a child so that I might become a parent; but selfish, too, to have a child and stay the same, or not to have one - unless the only honest choice would have been to try to become this kinder version of myself without the need to bring another into it.' Set at the twin poles of life and death, Sight is a novel about being a parent and a child, what it is like to bring a person in to the world, and what it is to let one go. With forays into the history of psychoanalysis and the origins of modern surgery, our unnamed narrator shines a light on those hidden parts that lie at the heart of us, to reveal an examined life laid bare in all its desire and grief. Fiercely intelligent and exquisitely written, Jessie Greengrass's remarkable debut is an incisive exploration of how we see others, and how we might know ourselves"--
  • Baker & Taylor
    Draws on the history of psychoanalysis and the origins of modern surgery to explore the complexities and poignant birth-and-death cycles of being a child, choosing to become a parent, and letting go.
  • Baker & Taylor
    A first novel by an award-winning writer draws on the history of psychoanalysis and the origins of modern surgery to explore the complexities and poignant birth-and-death cycles of being a child, choosing to become a parent and letting go.
  • Random House, Inc.
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018

    'A dazzling obsessive entry in a burgeoning genre. Unusual and absorbing... the novel as a whole exudes a strange consoling power.' – The New Yorker

    'Sight delves into a lot in under 200 pages: mothers and daughters, birth and death, loss and grief, finding one's balance, the ardor and arduousness of scientific discovery. Readers willing to give themselves over to Greengrass' penetrating vision will surely expand theirs.' – NPR

    'With visceral, elegantly wrought truths of life and loss, this is an exciting companion to Sheila Heti's recent Motherhood (2018).' – Booklist



    In Jessie Greengrass' dazzlingly brilliant debut novel, our unnamed narrator recounts her progress to motherhood, while remembering the death of her own mother ten years before, and the childhood summers she spent with her psychoanalyst grandmother.

    Woven among these personal recollections are significant events in medical history: Wilhelm Rontgen’s discovery of the X-ray; Sigmund Freud’s development of psychoanalysis and the work that he did with his daughter, Anna; and the origins of modern surgery and the anatomy of pregnant bodies.

    Sight is a novel about being a parent and a child: what it is like to bring a person in to the world, and what it is to let one go. Exquisitely written and fiercely intelligent, it is an incisive exploration of how we see others, and how we might know ourselves.

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