Afterglow
Eileen Myles
Afterglow is a touching memoir that explores the profound bond between a pet-owner and their beloved dog. Written by a celebrated trailblazer in the literary world, this book follows the author's experiences with intimacy and spirituality, as well as their struggles with addiction and grief, through the lens of their relationship with their pit bull Rosie. With compelling anecdotes and fantastical myths, Afterglow is a heartwarming and thought-provoking read for anyone who has ever loved a pet.
Publish Date
2017-09-12T00:00:00.000Z
2017-09-12T00:00:00.000Z
Goodreads Rating
3.49
ISBN
9780802127099
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Recommendations
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Recommendations
2017-10-20T00:00:00.000Z
Afterglow is a wry, gorgeous, psychedelic effort to plumb the subject of dog-human partnership - which, in its generic form, is the subject of many cheesy movies and bumper stickers ('Who Rescued Who?') but which, with Myles and Rosie, appears as an exceptional power struggle, a thought experiment about the limits of consciousness, creativity, and love. There is a destabilising, unrelenting directness in Myles’s writing, and Afterglow is like the Just Kids of dog books: a punk devotional, shot through with a sort of divine attention to material reality and a poet’s associative leaps. – source