Bringing together cultural analysis and textual readings on critically-acclaimed bestseller and winner of the prestigious Women's Prize for Fiction, Maggie O'Farrell, this collection covers her nine novels, her memoir I Am, I Am, I Am, two children's books and features an exclusive interview with the author herself.
The first full-length study of O'Farrell's work, this book offers critical explorations from her earliest works to the award-winning Hamnet and most recent best-selling novel, The Marriage Portrait.
With a timeline of her life and works, as well as suggested further reading, the themes explored include grief and sacrifice, longing and belonging, trauma, translation, palimpsestic texts and the relation of her work to history and the female domestic gothic.
- 176 pages
- English
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series
- Title
- Contents
- Series Editorsâ Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Chronology of Maggie OâFarrellâs Life and Works
- Introduction: In Search of Maggie OâFarrell
- 1 âThe Space Betweenâ: Maggie OâFarrellâs The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
- 2 Love, Loss and (Be)longing in After Youâd Gone and The Distance Between Us
- 3 âThe Women We Become after Childrenâ: Palimpsests of the City and the Self in Maggie OâFarrellâs The Hand that First Held Mine
- 4 Vantage Points: How Maggie OâFarrell Dissects a Marriage by Shifting Points of View in This Must Be the Place
- 5 Lost in Translation: The Dis-located Structures of Maggie OâFarrellâs My Loverâs Lover
- 6 âA Small Victory for Love over Deathâ: The Haunted Narratives of I Am, I Am, I Am, Instructions for a Heatwave and The Hand that First Held Mine
- 7 The Taming Shrew: Agnes in Maggie OâFarrellâs Hamnet as (Early) Modern Husbander
- 8 Filling Historical and Emotional Voids: Hamnet
- 9 Remaking the Duchess: Underpainting and Overpainting in The Marriage Portrait
- âPost-it Babyâ: An Interview with Maggie OâFarrell
- Bibliography
- Further Reading
- Index
- Copyright
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