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OverviewSince the publication of her groundbreaking collection, The Boys of My Youth, Jo Ann Beard has been heralded as a master of the autobiographical essay, a form that has recently gained popularity with the works of Leslie Jamison, Eula Biss, Esme Weijun Wang, and Roxane Gay, among others. Now, Beard returns with nine new nonfiction stories in which she investigates love and betrayal, grief and survival in the precise, searingly personal language for which she is beloved. In these nine essays, Beard captures both the quietly luminous moments of daily existence and those of life-and-death decision: a man jumps from a burning building to save his own life; a woman fights off a home invader with only a shovel; and in the title, novella-length story, the narrator at once confronts the last moments of a dear friend and the devastating betrayal of the man who has been her longtime companion. With exquisite language and unflinching observation, Festival Days captures the pain and exhilaration of our human experience, and shows a seminal author at the pinnacle of her talent. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jo Ann BeardPublisher: Little, Brown & Company Imprint: Little, Brown & Company Dimensions: Width: 14.40cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 21.20cm Weight: 0.380kg ISBN: 9780316497237ISBN 10: 0316497231 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 05 August 2021 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsMasterfully wrought... this novel is at times downright hilarious and often hold-your-breath-and-hope-for-the-best suspenseful. The restraint with which Beard deploys moments of tension and humor makes each page glimmer. --Samuel Reaves Slaton, O, The Oprah Magazine Extraordinary... Beard is writing not with the romanticism of a girl looking up at the stars, but with the brilliant cold light of the stars looking down at us. --Ted Anton, Chicago Tribune An exuberant first novel... Beard has a knack for melding the funny and the sad, amplifying small moments into something big. --Susannah Meadows, New York Times 'I love how you love things, ' someone who loves her tells Jo Ann Beard. That love is one reason Festival Days is such a great book. Another is her flair for describing those things in vibrant and felicitous prose. Beard honors the beautiful, the sacred, and the comic in life, and for life's inescapable cruelties and woes she offers the wisdom of a sage. --Sigrid Nunez, author of What Are You Going Through and National Book Award-winning The Friend Festival Days is profoundly observed and impeccably phrased. No surprises there, then, given Jo Ann Beard's formidable talents. But it's actually full of audacious narrative surprises, is darkly moving and, at times, unexpectedly--almost unbearably--suspenseful. --Geoff Dyer, author of Otherwise Known as the Human Condition and White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World Festival Days is an artistic triumph--vividly peopled, elegantly written, and full of surprises. Each essay and story is an electrically-charged tale of loss and partial redemption. Reading Jo Ann Beard is like setting out on a walk with a curious and intelligent friend who is determined to show you how seemingly unrelated things share a secret kinship. --Adrienne Brodeur, author of Wild Game Praise for In Zanesville A fierce, funny, brave, and bracingly honest new novel... Every bit as poignant and powerful as The Catcher in the Rye. --Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune Praise for The Boys of My Youth Beard remembers (or imagines) her childhood self with an uncanny lucidity that startles. --Laura Miller, New York Times Book Review Praise for Festival Days Imaginative and precise... These sharp essays cement Beard's reputation as a master of the form... [she] can evoke many emotions in a single stroke. --Publishers Weekly (starred review) Masterfully wrought...this novel is at times downright hilarious and often hold-your-breath-and-hope-for-the-best suspenseful. The restraint with which Beard deploys moments of tension and humor makes each page glimmer. --Samuel Reaves Slaton, O, The Oprah Magazine Extraordinary...Beard is writing not with the romanticism of a girl looking up at the stars, but with the brilliant cold light of the stars looking down at us. --Ted Anton, Chicago Tribune An exuberant first novel....Beard has a knack for melding the funny and the sad, amplifying small moments into something big. --Susannah Meadows, New York Times Praise for In Zanesville A fierce, funny, brave, and bracingly honest new novel... Every bit as poignant and powerful as The Catcher in the Rye. --Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune Praise for The Boys of My Youth Beard remembers (or imagines) her childhood self with an uncanny lucidity that startles. --Laura Miller, New York Times Book Review Author InformationJo Ann Beard is the author of the groundbreaking collection of autobiographical essays, The Boys of My Youth, and the novel, In Zanesville. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, Best American Essays, and other magazines and anthologies. She has received a Whiting Foundation Award and nonfiction fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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