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The Trick Is To Keep Breathing Janice Galloway

The Trick Is To Keep Breathing By Janice Galloway

The Trick Is To Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway

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Summary

From the corner of a darkened room Joy Stone watches herself. As memories of the deaths of her lover and mother surface unbidden, life for Joy narrows - to negotiating each day, each encounter, each second; to finding the trick to keep living. Told with shattering clarity and wry wit, this is a Scottish classic fit for our time.

The Trick Is To Keep Breathing Summary

The Trick Is To Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway

From the corner of a darkened room Joy Stone watches herself. As memories of the deaths of her lover and mother surface unbidden, life for Joy narrows - to negotiating each day, each encounter, each second; to finding the trick to keep living. Told with shattering clarity and wry wit, this is a Scottish classic fit for our time.

The Trick Is To Keep Breathing Reviews

"A real achievement; its dialogue sparks and its voice is true. For Janice Galloway the trick is simply to keep writing" * Scotsman *
"This is like a Scottish Catcher in the Rye. You actually feel you're inside this woman's head, it is that visceral. And having experienced a downward spiral myself, I so admire her accuracy in every detail" -- Alan Cumming * New York Times *
"Claustrophobic but extraordinary" * Sunday Times *
"An account from the inside of a mind cracking up...its writing is as taut as a bowstring. From brilliant title to closing injunction, it hums with intelligence, clarity, wit; and, its heroine's struggle for order and meaning seduces our minds, exposes how close we all of us are to insanity. Joy, as Galloway's heroine reluctantly lets us know that she's called, is simply that dangerous step or two nearer the edge" * Listener *
"Distressing but immaculately written" * Observer *

About Janice Galloway

Janice Galloway's first novel, The Trick is to Keep Breathing, now widely regarded as a Scottish contemporary classic, was published in 1990 and won the MIND/Allen Lane Book of the Year. Her second novel, Foreign Parts, won the American Academy of Arts and Letters E. M. Forster Award while her third, Clara, about the tempestuous life of nineteenth-century pianist Clara Wieck Schumann, won the Saltire Award in 2002. Collaborative texts include an opera with Sally Beamish and three cross-discipline works with Anne Bevan, the Orcadian sculptor. Her 'anti-memoir', This Is Not About Me, was published by Granta in September 2008 to universal critical acclaim. She lives in Lanarkshire.

Additional information

GOR007026023
9781784870133
1784870137
The Trick Is To Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway
Janice Galloway
Used - Like New
Paperback
Vintage Publishing
2015-08-06
240
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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