The author’s self-conscious obsession with subjectivity and openness to the jarringly unfamiliar become significant themes. Whether tackling societal woes such as strip mining, drug wars, disease and wrongful imprisonment, or slippery abstract constructs including metaphor, sentimentality, confession and “gendered woundedness,” Jamison masterfully explores her incisive understanding of the modern condition. In her nonfiction debut, the winner of the 2011 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, Jamison ( The Gin Closet, 2010) presents 11 essays that probe pain alongside analyses of its literal and literary trappings. A dazzling collection of essays on the human condition.
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