作品情報

喪失と回復をたどる、静かな自己探訪の記録。

『Staring at Lakes』は、湖や自然を媒介に個人的な記憶、喪失、信仰、癒しを探る随想集。地域の風景や日々の観察を通じて人生の意味を静かに考察するエッセイが並ぶ。率直な語り口で読者の共感を誘う作品。

書籍情報

出版社

Yellow Kite

発売日

2017-03-09

ページ数

320ページ

言語

英語

サイズ

12.9 x 1.9 x 19.8 cm

ISBN-13

9781473627314

ISBN-10

1473627311

価格

2965 JPY

カテゴリ

洋書/Biographies & Memoirs/Memoirs

Throughout his life, Michael Harding has lived with a sense of emptiness - through faith, marriage, fatherhood and his career as a writer, a pervading sense of darkness and unease remained. When he was fifty-eight, he became physically ill and found himself in the grip of a deep melancholy. Here, in this beautifully written memoir, he talks with openness and honesty about his journey: leaving the priesthood when he was in his thirties, settling in Leitrim with his artist wife, the depression that eventually overwhelmed him, and how, ultimately, he found a way out of the dark, by accepting the fragility of love and the importance of now. Staring at Lakes was a number one bestseller in Michael's native Ireland and won three BGE Irish book awards in 2013, including Non-Fiction Book of the Year. 'It's rare for a memoir to demand such intense emotional involvement and rarer still for it to be so fully rewarded' - SUNDAY TIMES. 'Staring at Lakes is a raw and honest account of a life in depression. Harding's writing, which is rich and lyrical, is especially astute when describing the pain of living with an illness that has the ability to suck the joy out of any occasion.' - DAILY EXPRESS

Michael Harding is an author and a playwright. His creative chronicle of ordinary life in the Irish midlands is published as a weekly column in The Irish Times. He has published three novels , Priest, The Trouble with Sarah Gullion and Bird in the Snow.

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