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Candia McWilliam - What to Look for in Winter
Released: 05/08/2010
Jonathan Cape
In 2006, while judging the Man Booker prize for fiction, Candia McWilliam began to go blind. In this memoir she looks into the harrowing nature of her condition, along with painful childhood memories and her battle with alcoholism. She also details the painful process of hoping for a cure to impending blindness. Deeply moving.
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Guardian“McWilliams writes movingly about how drinking and blindness affected her...” For all the brilliance of its author, this book doesn't seem completely aware of everything it has revealed. The prose may be highly self-conscious, the syntax elaborate, and the references fancy. But the heart beneath is raw and bleeding...
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The Independent“One of the most devastatingly moving memoirs I've ever read...” It is about a battle with the self which is, at times, literally one of life and death. It's about envy and self-destruction and beauty and love. This is, for all its minor irritations, a work of beauty and of truth...
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Scotsman“Not in any sense a misey memoir...” This is a moving, uplifting, shocking and compellingly strange book. Candia McWilliam has always been a rare bird. But even rare birds can suffer and this one has turned excruciating, humiliating suffering into a powerful work of art...
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Financial Times“Cements her status as one of our most important literary writers...” Candia McWilliam was famously accused, in a review, of having “swallowed the dictionary”. She is certainly no Hemingway, but her love and understanding of words is gorgeously apparent in this memoir...
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The Telegraph“I laughed uproariously throughout...” The most startling, discomforting, complicated, ungovernable, hilarious and heart-rending of memoirs. Literary memoirs can be vindictive, score-settling acts of self-promotion, but this is a book of coruscating self-disgust...
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