Overview

Full Product Details

9781760992644

Table of Contents

Reviews

"""O'Rourke is fiercely experimental and explores themes of loss, perfectionism, longing, and healing, fragmenting her identity within the collection through the use of first-, second-, and third-person points of view…"" -- Books+Publishing ""An ultimately affirming memoir of familial rupture, grief and growth emerges mosaic-like from a series of short, stylistically diverse narratives. Kintsugi combines autobiographical moments with often essay-like reflections on these, and on apt quotes from historical and contemporary writers, revealing ways of creating a coherent self from a fractured life"" -- Simone Lazaro ""… a remarkable construction … a kind of manifesto in its depiction and especially in its valuing of female experience, in its careful and finally passionate depiction of how patriarchy works to make girls into women who will serve its needs as they serve the needs of the individual men it empowers."" -- Katherine Coles"

Author Information

Marie O’Rourke is an Australian author, researcher, critic and educator. She is – and always has been – entranced by the power of words. Marie’s essays slide across and through genres as they attempt to capture the shapeshifting nature of memory and identity. Her work has been published in many respected national and international journals and she holds a PhD from Curtin University, where she lectured in the Creative Writing, English & Literacy Studies, and Professional Writing & Publishing departments. 

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available