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The Trick is to Keep Breathing

The Trick is to Keep Breathing

by JaniceGalloway (Author)

  • Used

    Paperback 1991

    $3.39

  • Used

    Paperback 1989

    $12.33
Synopsis

An account from the inside of a mind cracking up...its writing is as taut as a bowstring. From brilliant title to closing injunction, it hums with intelligence, clarity, wit; and, its heroine's struggle for order and meaning seduces our minds, exposes how close we all of us are to insanity. Joy, as Galloway's heroine reluctantly lets us know that she's called, is simply that dangerous step or two nearer the edge' LISTENER.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 240
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07 Mar 1991
ISBN 10: 0749391731
ISBN 13: 9780749391737
Book Overview: Galloway invites us into the mind of a woman on the edge, in a novel which 'resembles Tristram Shandy as rewritten by Sylvia Plath.' New York Times

Media Reviews
A real achievement; its dialogue sparks and its voice is true. For Janice Galloway the trick is simply to keep writing Scotsman An account from the inside of a mind cracking up...its writing is as taut as a bowstring. From brilliant title to closing injunction, it hums with intelligence, clarity, wit; and, its heroine's struggle for order and meaning seduces our minds, exposes how close we all of us are to insanity. Joy, as Galloway's heroine reluctantly lets us know that she's called, is simply that dangerous step or two nearer the edge Listener This remarkably original work has gained Janice Galloway an almost immediate reputation as one of Scotland's most interesting serious prose writers Glasgow Herald Poignant and original...a wonderfully sensitive portrait of a woman who doesn't give up trying to find the trick to making life go on Ms ? Claustrophobic but extraordinary Sunday Times
Author Bio
Janice Galloway was born in Ayrshire in 1956. She has worked in a variety of paid and unpaid jobs but has mostly been a teacher. Since 1987 when her first story was published, she has become known for her fiction. Her novel The Trick is to Keep Breathing was published in Polygon in 1990. A collection of short stories follows from Secker & Warburg in 1991. She likes cities and lives in Glasgow.