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The Reactor
- Author
- Nick Blackburn
- Narrator
- Nick Blackburn
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Publish Date
- 18 January 2022
- Run Time
- 5 hours 51 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Memoirs, The Arts: art forms
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'One of the finest accounts of the mysterious workings of grief I have ever read.'-Helen Macdonald
'Beautiful, strange and completely compelling.'
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Olivia Laing
'I read it with awe and sorrow.'
-Fatima Bhutto
I tore the arse of my pyjamas one morning, about a year before he died, and my father sewed it up perfect in a few minutes, just like that. I was looking at them this morning actually, his line of white stitches. It's beautiful really. They've held.
After the sudden death of his father, Nick Blackburn embarks on a singular, labyrinthine journey to understand his loss. How do you create an existence when all you can see is a void?
The Reactor is a memoir about absence and creative possibilities, assembled like the pieces of a puzzle. Through philosophy, music, fashion, psychology, art and film, Blackburn travels a vast panorama of ideas and characters to offer an entirely new exploration of grief. This is a book about looking for and finding chain reactions and human connection - a work of enduring fragmentary beauty.
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Details
- Author
- Nick Blackburn
- Narrator
- Nick Blackburn
- Duration
- 5 hours 51 minutes
- Release Date
- 18 January 2022
- ISBN
- 9780571376520
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Genre
- Memoirs, The Arts: art forms
Synopsis
'One of the finest accounts of the mysterious workings of grief I have ever read.'-Helen Macdonald'Beautiful, strange and completely compelling.'-Olivia Laing'I read it with awe and sorrow.'-Fatima BhuttoI tore the arse of my pyjamas one morning, about a year before he died, and my father sewed it up perfect in a few minutes, just like that. I was looking at them this morning actually, his line of white stitches. It's beautiful really. They've held.After the sudden death of his father, Nick Blackburn embarks on a singular, labyrinthine journey to understand his loss. How do you create an existence when all you can see is a void?The Reactor is a memoir about absence and creative possibilities, assembled like the pieces of a puzzle. Through philosophy, music, fashion, psychology, art and film, Blackburn travels a vast panorama of ideas and characters to offer an entirely new exploration of grief. This is a book about looking for and finding chain reactions and human connection - a work of enduring fragmentary beauty.
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