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Ongoingness

Paperback • 2019 • 1. edition

Ongoingness

By Sarah Manguso

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About the book

In Ongoingness, Sarah Manguso continues to define the contours of the contemporary essay. In it, she confronts a meticulous diary that she has kept for twenty-five years. `I wanted to end each day with a record of everything that had ever happened,' she explains. But this simple statement belies a terror that she might forget something, that she might miss something important. Maintaining that diary, now eight hundred thousand words, had become, until recently, a kind of spiritual practice.Then ...Show more

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9781509883318

Publisher

Pan Macmillan

Published year

2019

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