Body Friend: SHORTLISTED FOR THE STELLA PRIZE by Katherine Brabon Paperback Book

Description: Body Friend by Katherine Brabon Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description SHORTLISTED FOR THE STELLA PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND FICTION BOOK AWARD an illuminating reflection on what it means to live with pain. –Publishers WeeklyBody Friend is a deeply intimate tribute to the fragile and porous self, written in prose of rare clarity and tenderness. I felt everything reading this book.—Claire Thomas, author of The Performance and Fugitive BlueBody Friend is a novel that clings to the mind long after it finishes. —ArtsHUB a tender and raw novel about friendship, chronic pain and the healing power of water. — Harpers Bazaar Katherine Brabon distinguished herself with her first novels, The Memory Artist and The Shut Ins, but she has surpassed these and reached an early career pinnacle with her enigmatically titled novel, Body Friend.—Books + PublishingLate in the summer five years ago, when I was recovering from a surgical procedure, I met two women within a few weeks of each other and I saw both of them regularly, always separately, for some months afterwards. Summer did not give way easily that year, and even so we must force our bodies down to sleep in the heat, and even if experience does not give itself up easily to representation, I will lay it down anyway; frame the raw and exigent weeks, the untrustworthy months after the hospital, render it and them, Frida and Sylvia, as closely as possible to reality—or whatever is the feelingof a life and mind lived inside a body. A woman leaves the hospital after an operation and starts swimming in a pool in Melbournes inner suburbs. There she meets Frida, who is uncannily like her in her experience of illness. Soon after, she meets another woman in a local park, Sylvia, who sees her pain and encourages her to rest. The two new friends seem to be polar opposites: Frida adores the pool and the natural world, Sylvia clings to the protection of interior worlds. What begins as two seemingly simple friendships is challenged by what each woman asks of her, of themselves, and their bodies. From the acclaimed author of The Memory Artist and The Shut Ins comes a new novel about the relationship between body and self, and how we must dive beneath the surface to really know ourselves. PRAISE FOR BODY FRIEND: Body Friend shows that pain can be a friend and a friend can be a mirror, but what they reflect is more than just a mirror image, and contains many possibilities. —Sydney Morning HeraldBody Friend is tender and expressive. Brabons writing is exquisitely constructed. Her prose holds quiet emotional weight – putting the reader in mind, particularly, of Elena Ferrantes style – which is extraordinarily effective in capturing the lived realities of the body. Body Friend is a novel that clings to the mind long after it finishes. —ArtsHUB Its language is startling for its poetic tendencies – it is rhythmic and observant, and liltingly musical – as well as its clarity and sharp concision. Brabons prose is one of the deepest pleasures of the novel. —The Saturday Paper The plot unfolds artfully and with precision to surprise and exceed readers expectations.—Books + Publishing Katherine Brabons Body Friend is a tender ode to the recursive mysteries of the body and the need to find ourselves in other people. The narrators pull between Frida and Sylvia, between effort and surrender, haunted and compelled me. This books speaks to you with a delicate, iron grace, endlessly returning. –Alyssa Songsiridej, author of Little Rabbit At once a feverish investigation of the bodys limits and a hypnotic account of city walks, swimming, and friendship. I loved the intimacy of these pages. –AyegÜl Sava, author of The Anthropologists and White on White Never before have I read a book with such a compelling investigation of illness and pain, recovery and rest. Brabon writes with unwavering insight and intelligence; Body Friend inspires me to better understand my own friendships, my own life in a body. I tore through it. I will be thinking about this book for a long, long time. –Anna Hogeland, author of The Long Answer An examination of a life in pain that isnt at all painful to read. Fearless and clear-eyed. This book is a gift. —Karen Havelin, author of Please Read This Leaflet Carefully An utterly absorbing, entirely one-of-a-kind novel, Body Friend is an acutely observed exploration of chronic pain, revealing an uncommon richness and resonance behind experiences that so often feel dull and deadening. Beyond that, its an insightful and fresh meditation on the dualities we all negotiate between mind and body, control and submission, devotion and guilt, hope and despair. The writing—insistent, rhythmic, immersive, sure—is a masterful marriage of content to form: writer as lap-swimmer circling the pool. Reading it feels like a plunge into cool water, both bracing and relieving, as intimately familiar as its surprising. The gift of this book will stay with me for a long time. –Helena de Bres, author of How to Be Multiple Author Biography Katherine Brabons first novel, The Memory Artist, won The Australian/Vogels Literary Award in 2016. It was shortlisted in the NSW Premiers Literary Awards and longlisted in the Indie Book Awards. Her second novel, The Shut Ins was published in 2021. It won the Peoples Choice Award at the New South Wales Premiers Literary Awards in 2022, was shortlisted for the NSW Premiers Literary Awards Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and Longlisted for the ALS Gold Medal from the Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Katherine lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia, the unceded land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. Details ISBN 1761151789 ISBN-13 9781761151781 Title Body Friend Author Katherine Brabon Format Paperback Year 2023 Pages 256 Publisher Ultimo Press GE_Item_ID:143608087; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. 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