Run towards the danger : confrontations with a body of memory
(Book)
Author
Contributors
Tamaki, Lauren, illustrator.
Published
New York : Penguin Press, 2022.
Format
Book
ISBN
9780593300350, 0593300351
Physical Desc
258 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
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Location | Call Number | Status | Due Date |
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Millhopper Branch - Adult Biography | BIO POLLEY,S 2022 | Out | October 16, 2024 |
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Published
New York : Penguin Press, 2022.
Language
English
ISBN
9780593300350, 0593300351
UPC
40031006930
Notes
Description
"Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger explores memory and the dialogue between her past and her present. These are the most dangerous stories of my life. The ones I have avoided, the ones I haven't told, the ones that have kept me awake on countless nights. As these stories found echoes in my adult life, and then went another, better way than they did in childhood, they became lighter and easier to carry. Sarah Polley's work as an actor, screenwriter, and director is celebrated for its honesty, complexity, and deep humanity. She brings all those qualities, along with her exquisite storytelling chops, to these six essays. Each one captures a piece of Polley's life as she remembers it, while at the same time examining the fallibility of memory, the mutability of reality in the mind, and the possibility of experiencing the past anew, as the person she is now but was not then. As Polley writes, the past and present are in a "reciprocal pressure dance." Polley contemplates stories from her own life ranging from stage fright to high-risk childbirth to endangerment and more. After struggling with the aftermath of a concussion, Polley met a specialist who gave her wholly new advice: to recover from a traumatic injury, she had to retrain her mind to strength by charging towards the very activities that triggered her symptoms. With riveting clarity, she shows the power of applying that same advice to other areas of her life in order to find a path forward, a way through. Rather than live in a protective crouch, she had to run towards the danger. In this extraordinary book, Polley explores what it is to live in one's body, in a constant state of becoming, learning, and changing"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Polley, S., & Tamaki, L. (2022). Run towards the danger: confrontations with a body of memory . Penguin Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Polley, Sarah and Lauren, Tamaki. 2022. Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations With a Body of Memory. Penguin Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Polley, Sarah and Lauren, Tamaki. Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations With a Body of Memory Penguin Press, 2022.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Polley, Sarah,, and Lauren Tamaki. Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations With a Body of Memory Penguin Press, 2022.
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