Unspeakable The Things We Cannot Say

'Compassionate' Guardian'Extremely affecting' ScotsmanAs a teenager, Harriet Shawcross stopped speaking at school for almost a year. As an adult, she became fascinated by the limits of language.From the inexpressible trauma of trench warfare and the aftermath of natural disaster to the taboo of coming out, Harriet examines all the ways in which words scare us. She studies wartime poet George Oppen, interviews the author of The Vagina Monologues, meets Nepalese earthquake-survivors and the founders of the Samaritans and asks what makes us silent?

ISBN:	9781786890078
Publisher:	Canongate Books
Imprint:	Canongate
Published date:	06 Feb 2020
DEWEY:	153.6
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	335
Weight:	248g
Height:	129mm
Width:	197mm
Spine width:	22mm

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