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Molly by Blake Butler (2023, Trade Paperback)

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ISBN-13/ASIN: 9781648230370.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherpowerHouse Books

ISBN-101648230377

ISBN-139781648230370

eBay Product ID (ePID)16059005370

Product Key Features

Book TitleMolly

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicWomen, Personal Memoirs, Literary

Publication Year2023

GenreBiography & Autobiography

AuthorBlake Butler

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight13.4 Oz

Item Length7 in

Item Width4.9 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

ReviewsA dark miracle--actual evidence that what we can never know, what we could never imagine about the one we love, is what binds us to them, beyond death., I was gripped from the start by this memoir's urgent honesty. Blake Butler turned a story that was almost unspeakable into a narrative at once brutal and loving, broken and solid., Molly is a brilliant and brutal book. Blake Butler fearlessly takes on love and grief and the mysteries of this world and the next., "The most immediate feeling of life I've ever had reading a book--a life lived at the desk and out in the world, a life of openness and secrets. "Make art for me," Molly wrote to Blake. "I will read it all." I breathed along with every word.", How to praise a book of such wounded beauty as Blake Butler's phenomenal Molly ? The same way one would a life lost early: with love and sincerity and anger and wonder and lithely elegant and observant insights that remind us and inspire us, as Butler precisely does, to live and to love ourselves.

SynopsisBlake Butler and Molly Brodak instantly connected, fell in love, married and built a life together. Both writers with deep roots in contemporary American literature, their union was an iconic joining of forces between two major and beloved talents. Nearly three years into their marriage, grappling with mental illness and a lifetime of trauma, Molly took her own life. In the days and weeks after Molly's death, Blake discovered shocking secrets she had held back from the world, fundamentally altering his view of their relationship and who she was. A masterpiece of autobiography, Molly is a riveting journey into the darkest and most unthinkable parts of the human heart, emerging with a hard-won, unsurpassedly beautiful understanding that expands the possibilities of language to comprehend and express true love. Unrelentingly clear, honest and concise, Molly approaches the impossible directly, with a total empathy that has no parallel or precedent. A supremely important work that will be taught, loved, relied on and passed around for years to come, Blake Butler affirms now beyond question his position at the very top rank of writers.