The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir by Daley-Ward, Yrsa

The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir

Winner of the PEN Ackerley Prize - Longlisted for the 2019 PEN Open Book Award "Devastating and...
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Author: Yrsa Daley-Ward
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The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir by Daley-Ward, Yrsa

The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir

CHF 24.94

The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir

CHF 24.94
Author: Yrsa Daley-Ward
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Winner of the PEN Ackerley Prize - Longlisted for the 2019 PEN Open Book Award

"Devastating and lyrical." --The New York Times

"Suspenseful and affecting." --The New Yorker

From the celebrated poet behind bone, a collection of poems that tells a story of coming-of-age, uncovering the cruelty and beauty of the world, going under, and finding redemption

Through her signature sharp, searing poems, this is the story of Yrsa Daley-Ward and all the things that happened. "Even the terrible things. And God, there were terrible things." It's about her childhood in the northwest of England with her beautiful, careworn mother Marcia; the man formerly known as Dad (half fun, half frightening); and her little brother Roo, who sees things written in the stars.

It's also about the surreal magic of adolescence, about growing up and discovering the power and fear of sexuality, about pitch-gray days of pills and powder and connection. It's about damage and pain, but also joy. With raw intensity and shocking honesty, The Terrible is a collection of poems that tells the story of what it means to lose yourself and find your voice.

"You may not run away from the thing that you are
because it comes and comes and comes as sure as you breathe."

Author: Yrsa Daley-Ward
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 06/05/2018
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780143132622


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 02/15/2018 pg. 43
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2018 pg. 53

About the Author
Yrsa Daley-Ward is a writer and poet of mixed West Indian and West African heritage. Born to a Jamaican mother and a Nigerian father, Yrsa was raised by her devout Seventh Day Adventist grandparents in the small town of Chorley in the North of England. She splits her time between London and New York.

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