Bluets : AS SEEN ON BBC2'S BETWEEN THE COVERS
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An exploration of heartbreak through color.
Bluets could be a good read for someone looking for a raw and cerebral work about the inextricability of pleasure and pain. The book's exploration of color as a means of examining heartbreak is a unique and powerful perspective that will leave readers contemplating its themes long after finishing it. Additionally, its references to famous blue figures such as Joni Mitchell and Andy Warhol make for an interesting and informative read.
Bluets : AS SEEN ON BBC2'S BETWEEN THE COVERS
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ISBN: 9781911214526
Estimated First-hand Retail Price: RM84.35 MYR
Authors:
Maggie Nelson
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Date of Publication: 2017-06-01
Format: Hardcover
Goodreads rating: 4.1
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Description
Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation - Olivia LaingBluets winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with famous blue figures, including Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Yves Klein, Leonard Cohen and Andy Warhol. While its narrator sets out to construct a sort of ‘pillow book’ about her lifelong obsession with the colour blue, she ends up facing down both the painful end of an affair and the grievous injury of a dear friend. The combination produces a raw, cerebral work devoted to the inextricability of pleasure and pain, and to the question of what role, if any, aesthetic beauty can play in times of great heartache or grief.Much like Roland Barthes’s A Lover’s Discourse, Bluets has passed between lovers in the ecstasy of new love, and been pressed into the hands of the heartbroken. Visceral, learned, and acutely lucid, Bluets is a slim feat of literary innovation and grace, never before published in the UK.
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