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      Abandon Me: Memoirs

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      "An intricately constructed and emotionally devastating book about the appearance and disappearance of love." --Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation

      Named One of the Best Books of the year by:
      Esquire, Refinery29, BookR...

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      Product ID:9781632866585
      Product Form:Paperback / softback
      Country of Manufacture:US
      Title:Abandon Me
      Subtitle:Memoirs
      Authors:Author: Melissa Febos
      Page Count:336
      Subjects:Autobiography: general, Autobiography: general
      Description:Select Guide Rating
      "An intricately constructed and emotionally devastating book about the appearance and disappearance of love." --Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation

      Named One of the Best Books of the year by:
      Esquire, Refinery29, BookRiot, Medium, Electric Literature, The Brooklyn Rail, Largehearted Boy, The Coil and The Cut.

      Winner of the Lambda Literary Jeanne Cordova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction
      Finalist, Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir/Biography
      Finalist, Publishing Triangle''s Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction
      An Indie Next Pick

      For readers of Maggie Nelson and Leslie Jamison, a fierce and dazzling personal narrative that explores the many ways identity and art are shaped by love and loss.

      In her critically acclaimed memoir, Whip Smart, Melissa Febos laid bare the intimate world of the professional dominatrix, turning an honest examination of her life into a lyrical study of power, desire, and fulfillment.

      In her dazzling Abandon Me, Febos captures the intense bonds of love and the need for connection -- with family, lovers, and oneself. First, her birth father, who left her with only an inheritance of addiction and Native American blood, its meaning a mystery. As Febos tentatively reconnects, she sees how both these lineages manifest in her own life, marked by compulsion and an instinct for self-erasure. Meanwhile, she remains closely tied to the sea captain who raised her, his parenting ardent but intermittent as his work took him away for months at a time. Woven throughout is the hypnotic story of an all-consuming, long-distance love affair with a woman, marked equally by worship and withdrawal. In visceral, erotic prose, Febos captures their mutual abandonment to passion and obsession -- and the terror and exhilaration of losing herself in another.

      At once a fearlessly vulnerable memoir and an incisive investigation of art, love, and identity, Abandon Me draws on childhood stories, religion, psychology, mythology, popular culture, and the intimacies of one writer''s life to reveal intellectual and emotional truths that feel startlingly universal.


      Imprint Name:Bloomsbury USA
      Publisher Name:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2018-05-03

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      Weight348 g
      Dimensions208 × 160 × 23 mm