{"product_id":"all-the-lives-we-ever-lived-seeking-solace-in-virginia-woolf-paperback","title":"All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKatharine Smyth\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA wise, lyrical memoir about the power of literature to help us read our own lives--and see clearly the people we love most.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Transcendent.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post \u003c\/i\u003e- \"You'd be hard put to find a more moving appreciation of Woolf's work.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eTOWN \u0026amp; COUNTRY\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Katharine Smyth was a student at Oxford when she first read Virginia Woolf's modernist masterpiece \u003ci\u003eTo the Lighthouse\u003c\/i\u003e in the comfort of an English sitting room, and in the companionable silence she shared with her father. After his death--a calamity that claimed her favorite person--she returned to that beloved novel as a way of wrestling with his memory and understanding her own grief. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSmyth's story moves between the New England of her childhood and Woolf's Cornish shores and Bloomsbury squares, exploring universal questions about family, loss, and homecoming. Through her inventive, highly personal reading of \u003ci\u003eTo the Lighthouse\u003c\/i\u003e, and her artful adaptation of its groundbreaking structure, Smyth guides us toward a new vision of Woolf's most demanding and rewarding novel--and crafts an elegant reminder of literature's ability to clarify and console. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Braiding memoir, literary criticism, and biography, \u003ci\u003eAll the Lives We Ever Lived\u003c\/i\u003e is a wholly original debut: a love letter from a daughter to her father, and from a reader to her most cherished author. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAll the Lives We Ever Lived\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003eThis searching memoir pays homage to \u003ci\u003eTo the Lighthouse\u003c\/i\u003e, while recounting the author's fraught relationship with her beloved father, a vibrant figure afflicted with alcoholism and cancer. . . . Smyth's writing is evocative and incisive.\u003cb\u003e\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003eLike \u003ci\u003eH Is for Hawk\u003c\/i\u003e, Smyth's book is a memoir that's not quite a memoir, using Woolf, and her obsession with Woolf, as a springboard to tell the story of her father's vivid life and sad demise due to alcoholism and cancer. . . . An experiment in twenty-first century introspection that feels rooted in a modernist tradition and bracingly fresh.\u003cb\u003e\"--\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003eDeeply moving - part memoir, part literary criticism, part outpouring of longing and grief... This is a beautiful book about the wildness of mortal life, and the tenuous consolations of art.\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--The Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003eBlending analysis of a deeply literary novel with a personal story... gently entwining observations from Woolf's classic with her own layered experience. Smyth tells us of her love for her father, his profound alcoholism and the unpredictable course of the cancer that ultimately claimed his life.\u003cb\u003e\"--\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKatharine Smyth\u003c\/b\u003e is a graduate of Brown University. She has worked for \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e and taught at Columbia University, where she received her MFA in nonfiction. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 21, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52451338780979,"sku":"9781524760632","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/TjdvU0pCZlBDNytQMzVmNW54Ym9TQT09.webp?v=1759089377","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/all-the-lives-we-ever-lived-seeking-solace-in-virginia-woolf-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}