The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson audiobook

The Argonauts

By Maggie Nelson
Read by Maggie Nelson

Blackstone Publishing 9781555977078

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • 4 Formats: CD
  • 4 Formats: Library CD
  • 4 Formats: MP3 CD
  • 4 Formats: Playaway

  • ISBN: 9781504660839

  • ISBN: 9781504660815

  • ISBN: 9781504660822

  • ISBN: 9781504669696

Runtime: 4.80 Hours
Category: Nonfiction/Biography & Autobiography
Audience: Adult
Language: English
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Summary

Summary

Winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism

A London Guardian Pick of Best Books of the 21st Century

An Esquire Pick of Best Books of the Decade

A BuzzFeed Books Pick of Favorite Books of the Decade

A New York Times bestseller

A New York Public Library Staff Pick of Favorite Books of the Last 125 Years

A Literary Hub Pick of the 10 Best Memoirs of the Decade

A 2015 New York Times Book Review Notable Book

A 2017 Folio Prize Nominee

A Paste Magazine Pick of Best Memoirs of the Decade

A Wired Magazine Pick of Best Nonfiction of the Decade

The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2015 Selection

A NPR’s Great Reads Selection of 2015

A Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2015 for Nonfiction

An Audible Editors Top Pick of Favorite Audiobooks

A Bust Magazine Pick from Carrie Brownstein's Reading List

An Autostraddle Pick of Best Queer, Lesbian, Bisexual Books of the Decade

A Flavorwire Pick for Best Nonfiction of 2015

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2015

A Portland Mercury Pick for Required Reading of 2015

An Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick for May 2016 

A 2015 GoodReads Readers’ Choice Best Memoir & Autobiography Book Award nominee

A Vulture.com Pick

Vol.1 Brooklyn Pick

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family

Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of “autotheory” offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the author’s relationship with the artist Harry Dodge. This story, which includes Nelson’s account of falling in love with Dodge, who is fluidly gendered, as well as her journey to and through a pregnancy, is an intimate portrayal of the complexities and joys of (queer) family-making.

Writing in the spirit of public intellectuals such as Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes, Nelson binds her personal experience to a rigorous exploration of what iconic theorists have said about sexuality, gender, and the vexed institutions of marriage and child-rearing. Nelson’s insistence on radical individual freedom and the value of caretaking becomes the rallying cry of this thoughtful, unabashed, uncompromising book.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“In this gender-bending memoir, Maggie Nelson writes about the way both their bodies were changing, and about the intricacies of building her queer family.” —New York Times
“A superb exploration of the risk and the excitement of change…An exceptional portrait both of a romantic partnership and of the collaboration between Nelson’s mind and heart.” —New Yorker
“One of the most intelligent, generous, and moving books of the year.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“A book that will challenge readers as much as the author has challenged herself.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“[An] incredibly rich autobiographical meditation…Nelson blends philosophical inquiry, memoir, and gender criticism in a form she has dubbed ‘autotheory.’ Like her writing, Nelson’s theory blurs, eradicates, even breaks the margins of binary thinking and of the prevailing normative notion that we should each live a life that is ‘all one thing.’” —Library Journal
“So much writing about motherhood makes the world seem smaller after the child arrives…Nelson’s book does the opposite.” —New York Times Book Review
“Slays entrenched notions of gender, marriage, and sexuality with lyricism, intellectual brass, and soul-ringing honesty.” —Vanity Fair
“A magnificent achievement of thought, care, and art.” —Los Angeles Times
“Reading Maggie Nelson is like watching a high-wire act. Her books are inspiring.” —Boston Globe
“Nelson’s writing is fluid…She masterfully analyzes the way we talk about sex and gender.” —Huffington Post
“Part portrait of a happy family, part critical meditation on queerness…It doesn’t hurt that she speaks with the voice of a poet either.” —Vulture
“Exploring questions of family, mortality, and gender, and finding inspiration in both the personal and the artistic along the way.” —Vol1 Brooklyn

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Author

Author Bio: Maggie Nelson

Author Bio: Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson is a poet, critic, and award-winning author of The Argonauts, Bluets, The Art of Cruelty, Jane: A Murder , and The Red Parts, among others.

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Details

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Available Formats : CD, Library CD, MP3 CD, Playaway
Category: Nonfiction/Biography & Autobiography
Runtime: 4.80
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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