The Red Parts by Maggie Nelson
A chilling genre-busting memoir by a major American essayist Late in 2004, Maggie Nelson was looking forward to the publication of her book Jane: A Murder, a narrative in verse about the life and death of her aunt, who had been murdered thirty-five years before. The case remained unsolved, but Jane was assumed to have been the victim of an infamous serial killer in Michigan in 1969.Then, one November afternoon, Nelson received a call from her mother, who announced that the case had been reopened; a new suspect would be arrested and tried on the basis of a DNA match. Over the months that followed, Nelson found herself attending the trial with her mother and reflecting anew on the aura of dread and fear that hung over her family and childhood--an aura that derived not only from the terrible facts of her aunt's murder but also from her own complicated journey through sisterhood, daughterhood, and girlhood. The Red Parts is a memoir, an account of a trial, and a provocative essay that interrogates the American obsession with violence and missing white women, and that scrupulously explores the nature of grief, justice, and empathy.
Nelson, Maggie: - Maggie Nelson is most recently the author of three books of nonfiction: BLUETS (Wave Books, 2009); Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa Press, 2007), and The Red Parts: A Memoir (Free Press, 2007). The Art of Cruelty, a work of art criticism, is forthcoming from WW Norton in July of 2011. Nelson is also the author of several books of poetry, including Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007), Jane: A Murder (Soft Skull, 2005), THE LATEST WINTER (Hanging Loose Press, 2003) and SHINER (Hanging Loose, 2001). In 2007 she was the recipient of an Arts Writers grant from the Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. She has taught writing and literature at the Graduate Writing Program of the New School, Wesleyan University, and Pratt Institute of Art. Nelson currently lives in Los Angeles where she teaches on the BFA and MFA faculty of the School of Critical Studies at California Institute of the Arts.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781555977368 |
| ISBN 10 | 1555977367 |
| Title | The Red Parts |
| Author | Maggie Nelson |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Graywolf Press |
| Year published | 2016-04-05 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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