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Vessels: A Memoir of What Wasn't

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About the Book

When Dan, a writer, met Bekah, a potter dedicated to traditional Japanese ceramics, they swiftly fell in love. 'Of all the women I've ever met,' Dan told a friend, 'she's the first one who felt like family.' But while preparing for the birth of their first child at Christmastime, tragedy struck. In prose as unadorned as his wife's pottery, Raeburn recounts their lives as they clashed and clung to each other through a string of unsuccessful pregnancies before finally, joyfully, becoming parents together. Based on Raeburn's acclaimed New Yorker essay, Vessels is an unforgettable love story and a powerful portrait of a marriage cemented by the very events that nearly broke it.

About the Author :
Daniel Raeburn's writing has appeared in the New Yorker and Tin House, and he is the recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches at the University of Chicago.

Review :
Daniel Raeburn gets right down to the essentials: life, death, love, loss. There's not a spare syllable here, and the telegraphic style has the odd effect of amplifying these profound questions, allowing them to resonate fully. Vessels is a beautiful book about the sheer, mysterious contingency of anyone being born at all. A brilliant and dazzling story about love, marriage and family. In a prose so transparent that you feel as if it's your own experience, Daniel Raeburn has written a beautiful book about loss and redemption Vessels conveys the complicated loves of marriage and parenting, of finding honest and enduring meaning in a time when one is hard-pressed to do so Spare and elegant and smart and propulsive, but above all alive with the close breath of the realest intimacy This is one of the wisest, saddest, most beautiful books about love that I've ever read. [Vessels] is not only a poignant expression of how two young people matured as they created a family. It is also a celebration of the way that birth - even if that birth ends in sudden death - brings new life to parents. An eloquently candid memoir. - Kirkus


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781472151759
  • Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
  • Publisher Imprint: Corsair
  • Height: 198 mm
  • No of Pages: 192
  • Sub Title: A Memoir of What Wasn't
  • Width: 134 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1472151755
  • Publisher Date: 02 Jun 2016
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 290 gr


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