Título: All the Lives We Ever Lived
Autor: Katharine Smyth
Sinopse: A wise, lyrical memoir about the power of literature to help us read our own livesand see clearly the people we love most. Transcendent.The Washington Post Youd be hard put to find a more moving appreciation of Woolfs work.The Wall Street Journal NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TOWN & COUNTRY Katharine Smyth was a student at Oxford when she first read Virginia Woolfs modernist masterpiece To the Lighthouse in the comfort of an English sitting room, and in the companionable silence she shared with her father. After his deatha calamity that claimed her favorite personshe returned to that beloved novel as a way of wrestling with his memory and understanding her own grief. Smyths story moves between the New England of her childhood and Woolfs Cornish shores and Bloomsbury squares, exploring universal questions about family, loss, and homecoming. Through her inventive, highly personal reading of To the Lighthouse, and her artful adaptation of its groundbreaking structure, Smyth guides us toward a new vision of Woolfs most demanding and rewarding noveland crafts an elegant reminder of literatures ability to clarify and console. Braiding memoir, literary criticism, and biography, All the Lives We Ever Lived is a wholly original debut: a love letter from a daughter to her father, and from a reader to her most cherished author. Praise for All the Lives We Ever Lived This searching memoir pays homage to To the Lighthouse, while recounting the authors fraught relationship with her beloved father, a vibrant figure afflicted with alcoholism and cancer. . . . Smyths writing is evocative and incisive.The New Yorker Like H Is for Hawk, Smyths book is a memoir thats not quite a memoir, using Woolf, and her obsession with Woolf, as a springboard to tell the story of her fathers vivid life and sad demise due to alcoholism and cancer. . . . An experiment in twenty-first century introspection that feels rooted in a modernist tradition and bracingly fresh.Vogue Deeply moving part memoir, part literary criticism, part outpouring of longing and grief This is a beautiful book about the wildness of mortal life, and the tenuous consolations of art.The Times Literary Supplement Blending analysis of a deeply literary novel with a personal story... gently entwining observations from Woolf's classic with her own layered experience. Smyth tells us of her love for her father, his profound alcoholism and the unpredictable course of the cancer that ultimately claimed his life.Time
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “All the Lives We Ever Lived”, de Katharine Smyth, publicado pela editora Crown, em 2020 e com 338 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Crown
Páginas: 338
Ano: 2020
Edição:
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1524760633
ISBN13: 9781524760632
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora CROWN apresentam uma leitura que mescla narrativas pessoais intensas e relatos investigativos, frequentemente ancorados em histórias reais ou contextos sociais complexos. O catálogo traz obras que exploram desde conflitos culturais profundos, como a vida de mulheres em sociedades restritivas, até análises detalhadas de crises contemporâneas, como ameaças à infraestrutura e desafios políticos. O tom varia entre o rigor documental e o relato íntimo, criando uma experiência que tanto informa quanto provoca reflexão. Muitas obras privilegiam personagens multifacetados e dilemas morais, enquanto outras adotam ritmo mais dinâmico e envolvente, com foco em eventos históricos ou biográficos.
