Explores the intersection of art, love, and grief for a deeply personal literary experience
Features iconic blue figures and cultural references to inspire and engage readers
Visceral and lucid prose that interrogates the role of beauty in heartache
Innovative structure and themes reminiscent of Roland Barthes's A Lover's Discourse
Acclaimed author Maggie Nelson is a leading voice in contemporary literature
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Bluets winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with famous blue figures, including Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Yves Klein, Leonard Cohen and Andy Warhol.
While its narrator sets out to construct a sort of 'pillow book' about her lifelong obsession with the colour blue, she ends up facing
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