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My life has shocked me. One of the shocks has been sadness; death and other instances of impossibility. But the greater shock has been joy. I feel the hard flint of joy within my chest, the strength of it. It has stunned me with its refusal to be repressed. A life is made up of many shocks – the shock of birth, of death; the shock of love, of happiness; the shock of car crashes and finding yourself in a teenage body; the shock of surviving each of these shocks, and of what might bloom in their wake. In this incredibly beautiful book, Anna Beecher tells the story of her life through the shocks she has experienced.
We All Come Home Alive is the story of a life told through the moments which remade it – from car crashes to first kisses, from the stumbling magic of drunkenness to the tearing open of birth – to offer consolation and companionship, deep wisdom and luminous beauty.
‘Intelligent, poised and emotionally exacting. Beecher’s evocative essays on life’s defining moments unpick how we might be made and remade by life’
Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment
| Weight | 0.32 kg |
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| Dimensions | 21.8 × 13.6 × 2 cm |
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| Cover | Hardback |
| Pages | 256 |
| Language | English |
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| Dewey | 823.92 (edition:23) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
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