Scratched A Memoir of Perfectionism

Elizabeth Tallent, Caroline Turner Cole

eAudio - 2020

"Reading Scratched gave me the feeling of standing very close to a blazing fire. It is that brilliant, that intense, and one of the finest explorations I know of what it means to be a woman and an artist."—Sigrid Nunez, author of The Friend and Winner of the National Book Award for FictionIn a bold and brilliant memoir that reinvents the form, the acclaimed author of the novel Museum Pieces and the collection Mendocino Fire explores the ferocious desire for perfection which has shaped her writing life as well as her rich, dramatic, and constantly surprising personal life.Scratched is an intimate account of the uses a child, and the adult she becomes, will find for perfectionism and the role it will play in every part of her life.... Elizabeth Tallent's story begins in a hospital in mid-1950s suburban Washington, D.C., when her mother refuses to hold her newborn daughter, shocking behavior that baffles the...

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Published
HarperAudio
Language
English
Main Authors
Elizabeth Tallent, Caroline Turner Cole
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Format
MP3 audiobook, OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook
File Size209 GB
Parts8
ISBN9780062989468
Release Date2/25/2020
OverDrive Listen audiobook
File Size209 GB
ISBN9780062989468
Release Date2/25/2020