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Unspeakable: The Things We Cannot Say

By Harriet Shawcross

Book information

Publisher
Canongate Books
Year
2019
ISBN
9781786890061, 9781786890078
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (3928149 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-09-30 15:02:00
BIO000000Biography & AutobiographyNonfiction

Description

'Compassionate' Guardian 'Extremely affecting' Scotsman As a teenager, Harriet Shawcross stopped speaking at school for almost a year. As an adult, she became fascinated by the limits of language. From the inexpressible trauma of trench warfare and the aftermath of natural disaster to the taboo of coming out, Harriet examines all the ways in which words scare us. She studies wartime poet George Oppen, interviews the author of The Vagina Monologues, meets Nepalese earthquake-survivors and the founders of the Samaritans and asks what makes us silent?

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