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Run Towards The Danger
- Author
- Sarah Polley
- Narrator
- Sarah Polley
- Publisher
- W. F. Howes Ltd
- Publish Date
- 28 July 2022
- Run Time
- 7 hours 56 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
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Named a Most-Anticipated Book of 2022 by Entertainment Weekly, Lit Hub, and AV Club
Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley’s Run Towards the Danger explores memory and the dialogue between her past and her present.
These are the most dangerous stories of my life. The ones I have avoided, the ones I haven’t told, the ones that have kept me awake on countless nights. As these stories found echoes in my adult life, and then went another, better way than they did in childhood, they became lighter and easier to carry.
Sarah Polley’s work as an actor, screenwriter, and director is celebrated for its honesty, complexity, and deep humanity. She brings all those qualities, along with her exquisite storytelling chops, to these six essays. Each one captures a piece of Polley’s life as she remembers it, while at the same time examining the fallibility of memory, the mutability of reality in the mind, and the possibility of experiencing the past anew, as the person she is now but was not then. As Polley writes, the past and present are in a “reciprocal pressure dance”.
Polley contemplates stories from her own life ranging from stage fright to high-risk childbirth to endangerment and more. After struggling with the aftermath of a concussion, Polley met a specialist who gave her wholly new advice: to recover from a traumatic injury, she had to retrain her mind to strength by charging toward the very activities that triggered her symptoms. With riveting clarity, she shows the power of applying that same advice to other areas of her life in order to find a path forward, a way through. Rather than live in a protective crouch, she had to run toward the danger.
In this extraordinary book, Polley explores what it is to live in one’s body, in a constant state of becoming, learning, and changing.
User Reviews
Book 5.0
Narration 5.0
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5.0 5.0
The most beautifully written and narrated book. Powerful and awe inspiring, Sarah Polley is brutally honest, transparent and explicit in her experiences. Through her essays she offers an education and sensitive exploration of complex issues, as a listener it triggered all my emotions.
Franki 2023-03-04
Details
- Author
- Sarah Polley
- Narrator
- Sarah Polley
- Duration
- 7 hours 56 minutes
- Release Date
- 28 July 2022
- ISBN
- 9781004090075
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- W. F. Howes Ltd
- Genre
- Biography: arts and entertainment
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
“A visceral and incisive collection of six propulsive personal essays.” (Vanity Fair)Named a Most-Anticipated Book of 2022 by Entertainment Weekly, Lit Hub, and AV ClubOscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley’s Run Towards the Danger explores memory and the dialogue between her past and her present.These are the most dangerous stories of my life. The ones I have avoided, the ones I haven’t told, the ones that have kept me awake on countless nights. As these stories found echoes in my adult life, and then went another, better way than they did in childhood, they became lighter and easier to carry.Sarah Polley’s work as an actor, screenwriter, and director is celebrated for its honesty, complexity, and deep humanity. She brings all those qualities, along with her exquisite storytelling chops, to these six essays. Each one captures a piece of Polley’s life as she remembers it, while at the same time examining the fallibility of memory, the mutability of reality in the mind, and the possibility of experiencing the past anew, as the person she is now but was not then. As Polley writes, the past and present are in a “reciprocal pressure dance”.Polley contemplates stories from her own life ranging from stage fright to high-risk childbirth to endangerment and more. After struggling with the aftermath of a concussion, Polley met a specialist who gave her wholly new advice: to recover from a traumatic injury, she had to retrain her mind to strength by charging toward the very activities that triggered her symptoms. With riveting clarity, she shows the power of applying that same advice to other areas of her life in order to find a path forward, a way through. Rather than live in a protective crouch, she had to run toward the danger. In this extraordinary book, Polley explores what it is to live in one’s body, in a constant state of becoming, learning, and changing.
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