The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY KRISTEN STEWARTFrom the debris of a troubled early life comes an astonishing tale of survival, a paean to the pursuit of beauty, self-expression, desire--for men and women--and the exhilaration of swimming
THIS IS NOT YOUR MOTHER'S MEMOIR. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch, a lifelong swimmer and Olympic hopeful, escapes her raging father and alcoholic and suicidal mother when she accepts a swimming scholarship which drug and alcohol addiction eventually cause her to lose.
What follows is promiscuous sex with both men and women, some of them famous, and some of it S&M, as Lidia discovers the power of her sexuality to help her forget her pain. The forgetting doesn't last, though, and it is her hard-earned career as a writer and teacher, and the love of her husband and son, that ultimately create the life she needs to survive.
"I've read Ms. Yuknavitch's book The Chronology of Water, cover to cover, a dozen times . . . The book is extraordinary." --Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club
Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the national popular books The Book of Joan, The Little Backs of Children, Dora: A Headcase, and The Chronology of Water, as well as the memoir The Chronology of Water. Her TED Talk, The Beauty of Being a Misfit, has been seen over 2 million times. She has won two Oregon Book Awards and a Willamette Writers Award, as well as being a nominee for the 2017 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize and the 2012 Pen Center Creative Nonfiction Award. She lives in Portland, Oregon, where she writes, teaches, and writes.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780979018831 |
| ISBN 10 | 0979018838 |
| Title | The Chronology of Water |
| Author | Lidia Yuknavitch |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Hawthorne Books |
| Year published | 2011-04-12 |
| Number of pages | 268 |
| Prizes | Winner of Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award (Regional Book) 2012, Winner of Oregon Book Awards (Readers' Choice) 2012, Commended for Oregon Book Awards (Creative Nonfiction) 2012 |
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