ISBN: 9780802124609 - the iceberg: a memoir (14 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. "The work of an exceptional woman artist, writing from the inside about the things women have always done: nursing, nurturing, loving." --The Guardian Winner of the Wellcome Book Prize, and finalist for every major nonfiction award in the UK, including the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Costa Biography Award, The Iceberg is artist and writer Marion Coutts' astonishing memoir; an "adventure of being and dying" and a compelling, poetic meditation on family, love, and language. In 2008, Tom Lubbock, the chief art critic for The Independent was diagnosed with a brain tumor. The Iceberg is his wife, Marion Coutts', fierce, exquisite account of the two years leading up to his death. In spare, breathtaking prose, Coutts conveys the intolerable and, alongside their two-year-old son Ev--whose language is developing as Tom's is disappearing--Marion and Tom lovingly weather the storm together. In short bursts of exquisitely textured prose, The Iceberg becomes a singular work of art and an uplifting and universal story of endurance in the face of loss.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Winner of the Wellcome PrizeA finalist for the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Costa Award'A memoir quite unlike any other. It has the strength of an arrow: taut, spiked, quavering, working to its fatal conclusion.an extraordinary story told in an extraordinary way."-The Sunday Times'The most heartbreaking memoir of the year."-Independent on SundayWinner of the Wellcome Book Prize, and finalist for every major nonfiction award in the UK, including the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Costa Award, The Iceberg is artist and writer Marion Coutts' astonishing memoir; an 'adventure of being and dying 'and a compelling, poetic meditation on family, love, and language.In 2008, Tom Lubbach, the chief art critic for The Independent was diagnosed with a brain tumor. The Iceberg is his wife, Marion Coutts', fierce, exquisite account of the two years leading up to his death. In spare, breathtaking prose, Coutts conveys the intolerable and, alongside their two year old son Ev-whose language is developing as Tom's is disappearing-Marion and Tom lovingly weather the storm together. In short bursts of exquisitely textured prose, The Iceberg becomes a singular work of art and an uplifting and universal story of endurance in the face of loss.…

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnMarion Coutts is an artist and writer. She works in sculpture, film and video and has exhibited widely nationally and internationally, including the Foksal Gallery, Warsaw Yorkshire Sculpture Park and the Wel.