Dimensions
130 x 185 x 19mm
"Leaving home is perhaps the central experience of the writer's life. It is this enigma that informs the writer's perspective – the restless pursuit of a way back while remaining steadfastly at a distance."
Equal parts revelation and inspiration, these eleven essays combine a memoir of an exotic life, reflections on the art and craft of writing, and a brilliant examination of the always complex relationship between fiction and life.
Whether examining the difference between a story told and a story written, or the trials and rigours of teaching and writing to pay the rent, 'Reading, Writing and Leaving Home' surprises, instructs and entertains. Freed's writing covers the full range of human experience: from a poignant and hilarious meditation on the intricate knot binding mothers and daughters, to a brilliant inquiry into the nature of scandal and the porous boundary between private truth and public betrayal.
Learned, opinionated and wickedly funny, Freed tears off all fictional disguises and exposes the human being behind the artist. Destined to become a classic, 'Reading, Writing and Leaving Home' is essential reading for writers, readers... anyone engaged in literature.
