{"product_id":"constellations-reflections-from-life","title":"Constellations : Reflections from Life","description":"\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe #1 Irish bestseller and winner of Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the 2019 An Post Irish Book Awards, winner of the 2020 Dalkey Literary Awards, named Best Book of the Year by the\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Guardian, Observer, Image, Irish Times, New Statesman, \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIrish Independent, \u003c\/em\u003eSinead Gleeson's essays chroniclein crystalline, tender, powerful proselife in a body as it goes through sickness, health, motherhood, and love of all kinds\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"I have come to think of all the metal in my body as artificial stars, glistening beneath the skin, a constellation of old and new metal. A map, a tracing of connections and a guide to looking at things from different angles.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWe treat the body as an afterthought, until it no longer can be. Until the pain or the pleasure is too great.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Sinead Gleeson's life has been marked by terrible illness, including leukemia and debilitating arthritis. As a child, she bathed in the springs of Lourdes, ever hopeful that her body would cooperate, ever looking forward to the day when she could take her body for granted. But just as she turns inward to explore her own pain, and then the marvel of recovery, and then the arrival of her greatest joysfalling in love, becoming a mothershe turns her gaze outward.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e She delves into history, art, literature, and music, plotting the intimate experience of life in a women's body across a wide-ranging map. From Nick Cave to Taylor Swift, Botticelli to Frida Kahlo, Louisa May Alcott to Lucy Grealy, Constellations is an investigation into the different ways of seeing, both uniquely personal and universal in its resonances.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn the tradition of some of our finest life writers, Gleeson exploresin her own spirited, generous voicethe fierceness of being alive. She has written \"a book [that] every woman should read\" (Eimear McBride).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Published: USA, 2020\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Publisher: Ecco Pr\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Pages: 244\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Language: English\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e ISBN 13: 9780358213031\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e ISBN 10: 0358213037\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sinead Gleeson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44174462550282,"sku":"","price":16.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/products\/9780358213031.jpg?v=1674387132","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/constellations-reflections-from-life","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}