This is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn

Name: This is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn
Brand: Harry N. Abrams
Availability: OutOfStock
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)

By Aidan Chambers

0 - Default Title

Description

From the winner of the Michael L. Printz Award and the Carnegie Medal, a work of astonishing intimacy and depth Using a pillow book as her form, nineteen-year-old Cordelia Kenn sets out to write out her life for her unborn daughter. What emerges is a portrait of an extraordinary girl, who writes frankly of love, sex, poetry, nature, faith, and of herself in the world. Her thoughts range widely: on Shakespeare and breasts, periods and piano playing, friendship and trees, consciousness and sleep, and much more besides. As she writes of William Blacklin, the boy she chooses as her first lover, or Julie, the teacher who encourages her spiritual life, Cordelia maddens, fascinates, and ultimately seduces the reader. This is a character never to be forgotten from a writer at the height of his powers. From the winner of the Michael L. Printz Award and the Carnegie Medal, a work of astonishing intimacy and depth Using a pillow book as her form, nineteen-year-old Cordelia Kenn sets out to write out her life for her unborn daughter. What emerges is a portrait of an extraordinary girl, who writes frankly of love, sex, poetry, nature, faith, and of herself in the world. Her thoughts range widely: on Shakespeare and breasts, periods and piano playing, friendship and trees, consciousness and sleep, and much more besides. As she writes of William Blacklin, the boy she chooses as her first lover, or Julie, the teacher who encourages her spiritual life, Cordelia maddens, fascinates, and ultimately seduces the reader. This is a character never to be forgotten from a writer at the height of his powers.

Product details

Number of Pages:: 816
Release Date:: 2006-10-01
Publication Date:: 2006-10-01
Publisher:: Harry N. Abrams
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 0810970600
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:: 13
Weight:: 1066 g

Buy on Amazon

Currently sold out