Can You Tolerate This?
Publisher: Victoria University of Wellington Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781776560769
Subjects: Essays (single author); Authors, biography
Description: "Can You Tolerate This? is a collection of twenty-one personal essays by Ashleigh Young. In this spirited and singular book, Young roams freely from preoccupation to preoccupation - Hamilton's nineties music scene, family histories, a boy with a rare skeletal disease, a stone-collecting French postman, a desire for impossible physical transformation - trying to find some measure of clarity amid uncertainty. How to bear each moment of experience: the inconsequential as much as the shattering? Her search takes us through poignant, funny and raw territories"--Publisher information.