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Life Without Air by Daisy Lafarge

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Life Without Air

Author
Daisy Lafarge
Narrator
Daisy Lafarge
Publisher
Granta Books
Publish Date
5 November 2020
Run Time
1 hour 7 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
Poetry, Nature in art

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When Louis Pasteur discovered the process of fermentation in the 1870s, he noted that, while most organisms perished from lack of oxygen, some were able to adapt and even thrive as 'life without air'. In this capricious, dreamlike collection, characters and scenes traverse states of airlessness, from suffocating relationships, religions and institutions to toxic environments and ecstatic asphyxiations. Both compassionate and ecologically nuanced, this innovative collection bridges poetry and prose to interrogate the conditions necessary for survival.

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Author
Daisy Lafarge
Narrator
Daisy Lafarge
Duration
1 hour 7 minutes
Release Date
5 November 2020
ISBN
9781783786817
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
Granta Books
Genre
Poetry, Nature in art

Synopsis

When Louis Pasteur discovered the process of fermentation in the 1870s, he noted that, while most organisms perished from lack of oxygen, some were able to adapt and even thrive as 'life without air'. In this capricious, dreamlike collection, characters and scenes traverse states of airlessness, from suffocating relationships, religions and institutions to toxic environments and ecstatic asphyxiations. Both compassionate and ecologically nuanced, this innovative collection bridges poetry and prose to interrogate the conditions necessary for survival.

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