{"product_id":"notes-made-while-falling-paperback","title":"Notes Made While Falling - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJenn Ashworth\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA genre-bending meditation on sickness, spirituality, creativity, and the redemptive powers of writing.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes Made While Falling\u003c\/i\u003e is both a genre-bending memoir and a cultural study of traumatized and sickened selves in fiction and film. It offers a fresh, visceral, and idiosyncratic perspective on creativity, spirituality, illness, and the limits of fiction itself. At its heart is a story of a disastrously traumatic childbirth, its long aftermath, and the out-of-time roots of both trauma and creativity in an extraordinary childhood. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving from fairgrounds to Agatha Christie, from literary festivals to neuroscience and the Bible, from Chernobyl to King Lear, Ashworth takes us on a fantastic journey through familiar landscapes transformed through unexpected encounters and comic combinations. The everyday provides the ground for the macabre and the absurd, as the narration twists and stretches time. Hovering on the edge of madness, writing, it seems, might keep us sane--or might just allow us to keep on living. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eNotes Made While Falling\u003c\/i\u003e, Ashworth calls for a redefinition of the creative work of thinking, writing, teaching, and being, and she underlines the necessity of a fearlessly compassionate and empathic attention to vulnerability and fragility.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJenn Ashworth is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and author of the novels \u003ci\u003eA Kind of Intimacy, Cold Light, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Friday Gospels\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFell. \u003c\/i\u003eShe is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing at Lancaster University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.2 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 10, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46529731395628,"sku":"9781912685738","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/6260\/8940\/files\/7RRlVnM_i_9781912685738.webp?v=1793289051","url":"https:\/\/littleredgeneralstore.com\/products\/notes-made-while-falling-paperback","provider":"Little Red General Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}