Loss, a Love Story: Imagined Histories and Brief Encounters

A journey with the novels that shape our emotions, our romances, and ourselves Part memoir, part imagined...
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Author: Sophie Ratcliffe
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Loss, a Love Story: Imagined Histories and Brief Encounters by Ratcliffe, Sophie

Loss, a Love Story: Imagined Histories and Brief Encounters

$67.95

Loss, a Love Story: Imagined Histories and Brief Encounters

$67.95
Author: Sophie Ratcliffe
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
A journey with the novels that shape our emotions, our romances, and ourselves

Part memoir, part imagined history, this unique personal essay depicts the intimate experience of childhood bereavement, lost love affairs, and the complicated realities of motherhood and marriage. Framed by an extended train journey, author Sophie Ratcliffe turns to the novels, novelists, and heroines who have shaped her emotional and romantic landscapes. She transports us with her to survey the messiness of everyday life, all while reflecting on steam propulsion and pop songs, handbags and honeymoons, Anna Karenina and Anthony Trollope, former lovers and forgotten muses. Frank, funny, tender, and transporting, Loss, A Love Story asks why we fall in, and out, of love--and how we might understand doing so amid the ongoing upheavals and unwritten futures of the twenty-first century.

Author: Sophie Ratcliffe
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 04/15/2024
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.30h x 4.90w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780810146822

About the Author
SOPHIE RATCLIFFE is professor of literature and creative criticism at the University of Oxford and a fellow and tutor at Lady Margaret Hall. In addition to her scholarly books, including On Sympathy, she has published commentary pieces and book reviews for the Guardian, the New Statesman, and the Times Literary Supplement, among other outlets, and has served a judge for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction and the Wellcome Book Prize. She is married and has two children.

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