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How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Jones, Saeed
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like New
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- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
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- Product Group
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- IsTextBook
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- ISBN
- 9781501132735
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
1501132733
ISBN-13
9781501132735
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15038406528
Product Key Features
Book Title
How We Fight for Our Lives : a Memoir
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Language
English
Topic
American / African American, Personal Memoirs, Literary, Lgbt
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2019-002515
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"[This] memoir marks the emergence of a major literary voice...written with masterful control of both style and material." -- Kirkus Reviews , starred review, "Scorching...a commentary not only on what it takes to become truly and wholly oneself, but on race and LGBTQ identity, power and vulnerability, and how relationships can make and break us along the way. " -- Good Housekeeping " A coming-of-age memoir marks the emergence of a major literary voice.....written with masterful control of both style and material." -- Kirkus Reviews , starred review "Jones is a remarkable, unflinching storyteller, and his book is a rewarding page-turner." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review, PRAISE FOR HOW WE FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES BY SAEED JONES "This memoir is a rhapsody in the truest sense of the word, fragments of epic poetry woven together so skillfully, so tenderly, so brutally, that you will find yourself aching in the way only masterful writing can make a person ache. How We Fight for Our Lives is that rare book that will show you what it means to be needful, to be strong, to be gloriously human and fighting for your life." -- ROXANE GAY, author of Hunger "This book. Oh my goodness. It is everything everyone needs right now--both love song and battle cry, brilliant as fuck and at times, heartbreaking as hell. Every single living half-grown and grownup body needs to read this book. I'm shook. I'm changed." --JACQUELINE WOODSON, author of Another Brooklyn "There will be little left to say, and so much left to make after the world experiences Saeed Jones's How We Fight for Our Lives . This is that rare piece of literary art that teaches us how to read and write on every page. It's so black. So queer. So subtextual, and amazingly so sincere. Saeed changes everything we thought we knew about memoir writing, narrative structure, and heart meat. All three are obliterated. All three are tended to over and over again. All three will never ever be the same after this book. It's really that good." -- KIESE LAYMON, author of Heavy "[This] memoir marks the emergence of a major literary voice...written with masterful control of both style and material." -- KIRKUS REVIEWS , starred review "Powerful...Jones is a remarkable, unflinching storyteller, and his book is a rewarding page-turner." -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY , starred review "An unforgettable memoir that pulls you in and doesn't let go until the very last page." -- LIBRARY JOURNAL, starred review Jones' explosive and poetic memoir traces his coming-of-age as a black, queer, and Southern man in vignettes that heartbreakingly and rigorously explore the beauty of love, the weight of trauma, and the power of resilience. -- ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY "Jones' unabashed honesty and gift for self-aware humor will resonate with readers, especially those in search of a story that resembles their own." -- BOOKLIST "Scorching...a commentary not only on what it takes to become truly and wholly oneself, but on race and LGBTQ identity, power and vulnerability, and how relationships can make and break us along the way." -- GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, PRAISE FOR HOW WE FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES BY SAEED JONES "[A] devastating memoir....Jones is fascinated by power (who has it, how and why we deploy it), but he seems equally interested in tenderness and frailty. We wound and save one another, we try our best, we leave too much unsaid....A moving, bracingly honest memoir that reads like fevered poetry." -- THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW " A raw and eloquent memoir. One could say that Saeed Jones'' new memoir, How We Fight for Our Lives , is a classic coming-of-age story....But Jones'' voice and sensibility are so distinct that he turns one of the oldest of literary genres inside out and upside down. How We Fight for Our Lives is at once explicitly raunchy, mean, nuanced, loving and melancholy. It''s sometimes hard to read and harder to put down." -- MAUREEN CORRIGAN, NPR''S "FRESH AIR" "Urgent, immediate, matter of fact....The prose in Saeed Jones''s memoir How We Fight for Our Lives shines with a poet''s desire to give intellections the force of sense impressions." -- THE NEW YORKER "This memoir is a rhapsody in the truest sense of the word, fragments of epic poetry woven together so skillfully, so tenderly, so brutally, that you will find yourself aching in the way only masterful writing can make a person ache. How We Fight for Our Lives is that rare book that will show you what it means to be needful, to be strong, to be gloriously human and fighting for your life." -- ROXANE GAY, author of Hunger "This book. Oh my goodness. It is everything everyone needs right now--both love song and battle cry, brilliant as fuck and at times, heartbreaking as hell. Every single living half-grown and grownup body needs to read this book. I''m shook. I''m changed." --JACQUELINE WOODSON, author of Another Brooklyn "There will be little left to say, and so much left to make after the world experiences Saeed Jones''s How We Fight for Our Lives . This is that rare piece of literary art that teaches us how to read and write on every page. It''s so black. So queer. So subtextual, and amazingly so sincere. Saeed changes everything we thought we knew about memoir writing, narrative structure, and heart meat. All three are obliterated. All three are tended to over and over again. All three will never ever be the same after this book. It''s really that good." -- KIESE LAYMON, author of Heavy "[This] memoir marks the emergence of a major literary voice...written with masterful control of both style and material." -- KIRKUS REVIEWS , starred review "Powerful...Jones is a remarkable, unflinching storyteller, and his book is a rewarding page-turner." -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY , starred review "An unforgettable memoir that pulls you in and doesn''t let go until the very last page." -- LIBRARY JOURNAL, starred review Jones'' explosive and poetic memoir traces his coming-of-age as a black, queer, and Southern man in vignettes that heartbreakingly and rigorously explore the beauty of love, the weight of trauma, and the power of resilience. -- ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY "Jones'' unabashed honesty and gift for self-aware humor will resonate with readers, especially those in search of a story that resembles their own." -- BOOKLIST "Scorching...a commentary not only on what it takes to become truly and wholly oneself, but on race and LGBTQ identity, power and vulnerability, and how relationships can make and break us along the way." -- GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, "This memoir is a rhapsody in the truest sense of the word, fragments of epic poetry woven together so skillfully, so tenderly, so brutally, that you will find yourself aching in the way only masterful writing can make a person ache. How We Fight for Our Lives is that rare book that will show you what it means to be needful, to be strong, to be gloriously human and fighting for your life." -- Roxane Gay, author of Hunger, "Powerful...Jones is a remarkable, unflinching storyteller, and his book is a rewarding page-turner." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review, "This book. Oh my goodness. It is everything everyone needs right now--both love song and battle cry, brilliant as fuck and at times, heartbreaking as hell. Every single living half-grown and grownup body needs to read this book. I'm shook. I'm changed." --Jacqueline Woodson, author of Another Brooklyn, "Scorching...a commentary not only on what it takes to become truly and wholly oneself, but on race and LGBTQ identity, power and vulnerability, and how relationships can make and break us along the way." -- Good Housekeeping, "There will be little left to say, and so much left to make after the world experiences Saeed Jones's How We Fight for Our Lives . This is that rare piece of literary art that teaches us how to read and write on every page. It's so black. So queer. So subtextual, and amazingly so sincere. Saeed changes everything we thought we knew about memoir writing, narrative structure, and heart meat. All three are obliterated. All three are tended to over and over again. All three will never ever be the same after this book. It's really that good." -- Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy
Dewey Decimal
811/.6 B
Synopsis
WINNER OF THE 2019 KIRKUS PRIZE IN NONFICTION A NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2019 SELECTION One of the most anticipated books of Fall 2019--as selected by O, The Oprah Magazine ; Marie Claire ; Entertainment Weekly ; Time ; The Millions ; Refinery29 ; Good Housekeeping ; and many more. "A moving, bracingly honest memoir that reads like fevered poetry." -- THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "Jones's voice and sensibility are so distinct that he turns one of the oldest of literary genres inside out and upside down." --NPR'S FRESH AIR "An astonishing, unparalleled memoir...A rhapsody in the truest sense of the word." --ROXANE GAY "Every single living half-grown and grown-up body needs to read this book." --JACQUELINE WOODSON "People don't just happen," writes Saeed Jones. "We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. We sacrifice the people who dared to raise us. The 'I' it seems doesn't exist until we are able to say, 'I am no longer yours.'" Haunted and haunting, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir. Jones tells the story of a young, black, gay man from the South as he fights to carve out a place for himself, within his family, within his country, within his own hopes, desires, and fears. Through a series of vignettes that chart a course across the American landscape, Jones draws readers into his boyhood and adolescence--into tumultuous relationships with his family, into passing flings with lovers, friends, and strangers. Each piece builds into a larger examination of race and queerness, power and vulnerability, love and grief: a portrait of what we all do for one another--and to one another--as we fight to become ourselves. An award-winning poet, Jones has developed a style that's as beautiful as it is powerful--a voice that's by turns a river, a blues, and a nightscape set ablaze. How We Fight for Our Lives is a one-of-a-kind memoir and a book that cements Saeed Jones as an essential writer for our time., From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives --winner of the Kirkus Prize and the Stonewall Book Award--is a "moving, bracingly honest memoir" ( The New York Times Book Review ) written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power. One of the best books of the year as selected by The New York Times ; The Washington Post ; NPR; Time ; The New Yorker ; O, The Oprah Magazine ; Harper's Bazaar ; Elle ; BuzzFeed ; Goodreads ; and many more. "People don't just happen," writes Saeed Jones. "We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. We sacrifice the people who dared to raise us. The 'I' it seems doesn't exist until we are able to say, 'I am no longer yours.'" Haunted and haunting, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir about a young, black, gay man from the South as he fights to carve out a place for himself, within his family, within his country, within his own hopes, desires, and fears. Through a series of vignettes that chart a course across the American landscape, Jones draws readers into his boyhood and adolescence--into tumultuous relationships with his family, into passing flings with lovers, friends, and strangers. Each piece builds into a larger examination of race and queerness, power and vulnerability, love and grief: a portrait of what we all do for one another--and to one another--as we fight to become ourselves. An award-winning poet, Jones has developed a style that's as beautiful as it is powerful--a voice that's by turns a river, a blues, and a nightscape set ablaze. How We Fight for Our Lives is a one-of-a-kind memoir and a book that cements Saeed Jones as an essential writer for our time.
LC Classification Number
PS3610.O6279Z46 2019
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