Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, [2023]
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
391 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780811234719, 0811234711 :, 0811234711, 9780811234719
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"A New Directions book"
"After giving birth, Anna is utterly lost. She and her family move to the unfamiliar, snowy city of Stockholm. Anxiety threatens to completely engulf the new mother, who obsessively devours online news and compulsively buys clothes she can't afford. To avoid sinking deeper into her depression, Anna forces herself to read and write. My Work is a novel about the unique and fundamental experience of giving birth, mixing different literary forms-fiction, essay, poetry, memoir, and letters-to explore the relationship between motherhood, work, individuality, and literature"--