The Hero of This Book

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Author: Elizabeth McCracken
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Language: English
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The Hero of This Book by McCracken, Elizabeth

The Hero of This Book

$61.13

The Hero of This Book

$61.13
Author: Elizabeth McCracken
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Named a Top Ten Best Book of the Year by Time and People

Named a Best Book of the Year by: Washington Post * Kirkus Reviews * New Yorker * Chicago Public Library * NPR * Oprah Daily * Philadelphia Enquirer

A taut, groundbreaking new novel from bestselling and award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken, about a writer's relationship with her larger-than-life mother--and about the very nature of writing, memory, and art

Ten months after her mother's death, the narrator of The Hero of This Book takes a trip to London. The city was a favorite of her mother's, and as the narrator wanders the streets, she finds herself reflecting on her mother's life and their relationship. Thoughts of the past meld with questions of the future: Back in New England, the family home is now up for sale, its considerable contents already winnowed.

The woman, a writer, recalls all that made her complicated mother extraordinary--her brilliant wit, her generosity, her unbelievable obstinacy, her sheer will in seizing life despite physical difficulties--and finds herself wondering how her mother had endured. Even though she wants to respect her mother's nearly pathological sense of privacy, the woman must come to terms with whether making a chronicle of this remarkable life constitutes an act of love or betrayal.

The Hero of This Book is a searing examination of grief and renewal, and of a deeply felt relationship between a child and her parents. What begins as a question of filial devotion ultimately becomes a lesson in what it means to write. At once comic and heartbreaking, with prose that delights at every turn, this is a novel of such piercing love and tenderness that we are reminded that art is what remains when all else falls away.



Author: Elizabeth McCracken
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 10/04/2022
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.30w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780062971272


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 05/01/2022 pg. 3
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2022
Publishers Weekly 08/08/2022
Booklist 09/15/2022 pg. 17

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