Body Friend

A$20 · Offered by Harry Hartog Rare Books

SHORTLISTED FOR THE STELLA PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND FICTION BOOK AWARD 'an illuminating reflection on what it means to live with pain' -Publishers Weekly 'Body Friend is a deeply intimate tribute to the fragile and porous self, written in prose of rare clarity and tenderness. I felt everything reading this book.' -Claire Thomas, author of The Performance and Fugitive Blue 'Body Friend is a novel that clings to the mind long after it finishes.' -ArtsHUB 'a tender and raw novel about friendship, chronic pain and the healing power of water' -Harper's Bazaar 'Katherine Brabon distinguished herself with her first novels, The Memory Artist and The Shut Ins, but she has surpassed these and reached an early career pinnacle with her enigmatically titled novel, Body Friend.' -Books + Publishing Summer did not give way easily that year, and even so we must force our bodies down to sleep in the heat, and even if experience does not give itself up easily to representation, I will lay it down anyway; frame the raw and exigent weeks, the untrustworthy months after the hospital, render it and them, Frida and Sylvia, as closely as possible to reality-or whatever is the feelingof a life and mind lived inside a body. A woman leaves the hospital after an operation and starts swimming in a pool in Melbourne's inner suburbs. There she meets Frida, who is uncannily like her in her experience of illness. Soon after, she meets another woman in a local park, Sylvia, who sees

• Binding: Hardcover

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