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Pathemata: Or, The Story of My Mouth
By (author) Maggie Nelson
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A profound and deeply personal exploration of pain, the body and loss by the beloved author of Bluets and The Argonauts 'Full of warmth, wisdom and weirdness' JENNY MUSTARD This is a dreamlike portrait of a body in struggle to connect with itself and others. As the narrator contends with chronic pain, and with a pandemic raging in the background, she sets out to examine the literal and symbolic role of the mouth in the life of a writer. Merging dreams and dailies, Pathemata recounts the narrator’s tragicomic search to alleviate her suffering, a search that eventually becomes a reckoning with various forms of loss – the loss of intimacy, the loss of her father and the loss of a pivotal friend and mentor. In exacting, distilled prose, her account blurs the lines between embodied, unconscious and everyday life. Praise for Maggie Nelson ‘I remember where I was when I read each of Maggie Nelson’s books in the same way I remember a place where I heard important news’ ANNE ENRIGHT ‘Always brilliant’ GEOFF DYER ‘Among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation’ OLIVIA LAING
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Publisher | Vintage Publishing
Published date | 14 May 2026
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 80
Dimensions | 198 x 129 x 15mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 200g
ISBN | 978-1-5299-5136-3
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BISAC | biography & autobiography / personal memoirs
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