Bibliograph

Make it scream, make it burn, essays, Leslie Jamison

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Make it scream, make it burn, essays, Leslie Jamison

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Make it scream, make it burn

Oclc number

1117773672

Responsibility statement

Leslie Jamison

Sub title

essays

Summary

With the virtuosic synthesis of memoir, criticism, and journalism for which she has become known, Jamison offers 14 new essays that are by turns ecstatic, searching, staggering, and wiseWith the virtuosic synthesis of memoir, criticism, and journalism for which Leslie Jamison has been so widely acclaimed, the fourteen essays in Make It Scream, Make It Burn explore the oceanic depths of longing and the reverberations of obsession. Among Jamison's subjects are 52 Blue, deemed "the loneliest whale in the world"; the eerie past-life memories of children; the devoted citizens of an online world called Second Life; the haunted landscape of the Sri Lankan Civil War; and an entire museum dedicated to the relics of broken relationships. Jamison follows these examinations to more personal reckonings -- with elusive men and ruptured romances, with marriage and maternity -- in essays about eloping in Las Vegas, becoming a stepmother, and giving birth

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