Heating & Cooling – 52 Micro–Memoirs

Heating & Cooling – 52 Micro–Memoirs

by Beth Ann Fennelly (Author), Beth Ann Fennelly (Author)

Synopsis

The 52 micro-memoirs in genre-defying Heating & Cooling offer bright glimpses into a richly lived life, combining the compression of poetry with the truth-telling of non-fiction into one heartfelt, celebratory book. Ranging from childhood recollections to quirky cultural observations, these micro-memoirs build on one another to arrive at a portrait of Beth Ann Fennelly as a wife, mother, writer and deeply original observer of life's challenges and joys.

Some pieces are wistful, some wry and many reveal the humour buried in our everyday interactions. Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs shapes a life from unexpectedly illuminating moments and awakens us to these moments as they appear in the margins of our lives.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 112
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 16 Oct 2018

ISBN 10: 0393356485
ISBN 13: 9780393356489

Media Reviews
Heating and Cooling contains essays that are sometimes as short as 10 words... but add up to a surprisingly maximalist portrait of a life. -- The New York Times Book Review
The micro-memoirs showcase a range of emotions that belies their brevity-taken from another standpoint, their brevity is what gives them power. -- The Wall Street Journal
Author Bio
Beth Ann Fennelly is the author of three poetry collections, Unmentionables, Tender Hooks, and Open House; two memoirs, Heating & Cooling and Great with Child; and a novel, The Tilted World, coauthored with her husband, Tom Franklin. She teaches at the University of Mississippi, and is also the state's Poet Laureate. She lives in Oxford, Mississippi.