The Folded Clock

A Diary

The Folded Clock

A Diary

Heidi Julavits (Author)

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Description

An insightful meditation on time, relationships and identity, The Folded Clock is a funny, thoughtful and inquisitive diary for fans of Olivia Laing and Jenny Offill

'Exquisite ... Witty, sly, critical, inventive and adventurous' New York Times
'Scathingly funny ... Exhilarating ... An engaging portrait of a woman's sense of identity' LA Times

Like many young people, Heidi Julavits kept a diary. Decades later she found her old diaries in a storage bin, and hoped to discover the early evidence of the person (and writer) she'd since become. Instead, they 'revealed me to possess the mind of a paranoid tax auditor'.

Thus was born a desire to try again, to chronicle her daily life as a fortysomething woman, wife, mother and writer. The dazzling result is The Folded Clock, in which the diary form becomes a meditation on time and self, youth and aging, betrayal and loyalty, friendship and romance, faith and fate, marriage and family, desire and death, gossip and secrets, art and ambition.

The Folded Clock is as playful as it is brilliant, a tour de force by one of the most gifted prose stylists in the English language.

Product details

Published	09 Mar 2017
Format	Hardback
Edition	1st
Extent	304
ISBN	9781408884294
Imprint	Bloomsbury Publishing
Dimensions	205 x 135 mm
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Heidi Julavits

Heidi Julavits is the author of four critically ac…

Exquisite ... This diary is a diary in the way that Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater is a confession, or that Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year is a journal, or that Sei Shonagon's Pillow Book is a pillow book ... Witty, sly, critical, inventive and adventurous ... A work so artful that it appears to be without artifice. This diary is a record of the interior weather of an adept thinker. In it, the mundane is rendered extraordinary through the alchemy of effortless prose

New York Times
A work of finely tuned artifice, an unashamed performance of privacy ... By the end you come to realise that this is a work of careful, conscious assembly - a life told in tessellated pieces, fitting perfectly together ... Julavits acts as the expert tour guide to her own anxious, fizzing mind ... Revelatory

Financial Times
Julavits is a brilliant craftsman ... Intimate, insightful and very entertaining, this is a singular delight *****

The Lady
Scathingly funny ... Exhilarating ... An engaging portrait of a woman's sense of identity

Los Angeles Times
Blurs the lines between contemplation and revelation, fact and fiction ... Julavits takes the novel approach of reinventing the form of the diary ... Reveals a whole lot, in often-flawless prose, about motherhood, time, petty jealousies, grand debates, and the irresistible attractions of The Bachelorette

New York Magazine
Playful, intimate and deeply insightful ... What you can tell from this book is that Julavits is someone you truly want to know – even better than you already do from reading her diary

Chicago Tribune