{"product_id":"aurelia-aur-lia-a-memoir","title":"Aurelia, Aur?lia: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn eerily dreamlike memoir, and the first work of nonfiction by one of our most inventive novelists.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAurelia, Aurélia\u003c\/i\u003e begins on a boat. The author, sixteen years old, is traveling to Europe at an age when one can \"try on personae like dresses.\" She has the confidence of a teenager cultivating her earliest obsessions--Woolf, Durrell, Bergman--sure of her maturity, sure of the life that awaits her. Soon she finds herself in a Greece far drearier than the Greece of fantasy, \"climbing up and down the steep paths every morning with the real old women, looking for kindling.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKathryn Davis's hypnotic new book is a meditation on the way imagination shapes life, and how life, as it moves forward, shapes imagination. At its center is the death of her husband, Eric. The book unfolds as a study of their marriage, its deep joys and stinging frustrations; it is also a book about time, the inexorable events that determine beginnings and endings. The preoccupations that mark Davis's fiction are recognizable here--fateful voyages, an intense sense of place, the unexpected union of the magical and the real--but the vehicle itself is utterly new. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAurelia, Aurélia \u003c\/i\u003eexplodes the conventional bounds of memoir. It is an astonishing accomplishment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavis, Kathryn:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eKathryn Davis\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of six novels. She has received the Kafka Prize, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Lannan Foundation Literary Award. She teaches at Washington University, and lives in Vermont and St. Louis, Missouri.","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50495607111954,"sku":"9781644450789","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_118d533f-312e-4dd5-9879-e3f40b164974.jpg?v=1730686260","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/aurelia-aur-lia-a-memoir","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}