{"product_id":"aurelia-aurelia-a-memoir","title":"Aurelia, Aur��lia: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn eerily dreamlike memoir, and the first work of nonfiction by one of our most inventive novelists.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAurelia, Aurélia\u003c\/i\u003e begins on a boat. The author, sixteen years old, is traveling to Europe at an age when one can \"try on personae like dresses.\" She has the confidence of a teenager cultivating her earliest obsessions--Woolf, Durrell, Bergman--sure of her maturity, sure of the life that awaits her. Soon she finds herself in a Greece far drearier than the Greece of fantasy, \"climbing up and down the steep paths every morning with the real old women, looking for kindling.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKathryn Davis's hypnotic new book is a meditation on the way imagination shapes life, and how life, as it moves forward, shapes imagination. At its center is the death of her husband, Eric. The book unfolds as a study of their marriage, its deep joys and stinging frustrations; it is also a book about time, the inexorable events that determine beginnings and endings. The preoccupations that mark Davis's fiction are recognizable here--fateful voyages, an intense sense of place, the unexpected union of the magical and the real--but the vehicle itself is utterly new. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAurelia, Aurélia \u003c\/i\u003eexplodes the conventional bounds of memoir. It is an astonishing accomplishment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-11824199\"\u003eKathryn Davis\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781644450789\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 164445078X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO026000\"\u003ePersonal Memoirs\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43832851005579,"sku":"9781644450789","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/5100\/7115\/files\/img_42fc25bc-9baf-4732-b440-2cec3c911fd2.jpg?v=1755624739","url":"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/products\/aurelia-aurelia-a-memoir","provider":"CA Corrections Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}